Temiloluwa Adeyemo (he/him/his) is a rising fifth-year at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, pursuing a degree in Human Biology with a concentration in Global Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Collegiate experiences with friends undergoing mental health struggles led him toward a career in mental health practice, research, and advocacy. As a Nigerian immigrant to the United States, he has a foot in both worlds and hopes to serve marginalized populations.
This summer, while under the supervision of Dr. Bernadine Waller, he contributed to the development of the first evidence-based intervention (EBI) in the Black church for interpersonal violence (IPV) among Black women. Temi conducted rapid analysis coding and wrote the results section for an intervention workgroup for Black female survivors and IPV experts. He also wrote the results section for a study documenting gaps in domestic violence service provision. Temi conducted a literature review on global church-based interventions, contributing to a paper on contextual considerations for developing the aforementioned EBI. Temi also interviewed several mental health scholars and recovered emails of alums of the Columbia University Global Mental Health Program (CUGMHP) in preparation for the organization’s tenth-anniversary celebration.
Temi received unmatched personal and professional development at the CUGMHP. He is incredibly thankful for Dr. Waller, who put significant time towards his development. He is eager to continue working with Dr. Waller and excited to transfer the skills he has learned to one day develop EBIs to improve mental health outcomes within the Nigerian and American contexts.