Jemima Adepehin (she/hers) holds a background in Food Science and Technology from the Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria. She has valuable experience as a program officer with two non-governmental organizations, where she coordinated nutritional, emotional, academic, health, and economic support for orphans and vulnerable children. These experiences significantly deepened her passion for Public Health. During her earlier research, Jemima focused on leveraging underutilized produce to develop innovative food products and improve the nutritional composition of existing ones—with the primary objective of combating food insecurity and addressing diet-induced nutritional deficiencies. She is particularly driven to address public issues related to maternal-child health and infant malnutrition through interdisciplinary research and health policy.