She also holds an Honorary Professorship in Public Health at the University of Cape Town, where she lived and worked for more than a decade. Born in Lagos, she is a pan-African British public health physician and urban epidemiologist living in the diaspora, with affinities in Nigeria, South Africa and the UK, and a deep commitment to advancing health across the African continent and globally. Her career spans medicine and urbanism, science and science diplomacy, academia and advocacy, the global South and North. She has learned to navigate these intersecting worlds with urgency and care, fostering coordinated approaches between science, policy and society. Her research employs mixed, participatory and transdisciplinary methods to design creative, long-term strategies that address complex urban, population and planetary health challenges in rapidly growing cities. For the past 15 years, she has worked at the intersection of urbanisation, climate and health, guided by a single conviction: we cannot medicalise our way to a healthy future. Instead, we must design urban environments that both confront the climate crisis and sustain health. She has served as a scientific adviser to several organisations including the World Health Organization, International Society for Urban Health, UK Research and Innovation’s Planetary Health board and the World Obesity Federation. She sits on the editorial boards of PLOS Global Public Health, Lancet Planetary Health, Cities and Health and the Journal of Urban Health. With more than 150 academic publications, she has been profiled in The Lancet, Science and the British Medical Journal. She is a Fellow of the International Science Council and the African Academy of Sciences, a Next Einstein Forum Fellow and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.