Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan is a professor of Child Dental Health at the Obafemi Awolowo University. She has over 20 years of experience as a health researcher and is the published author of over 230 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles. Her research interests are in the areas of adolescent oral, mental, sexual and reproductive health and child oral health. Her advocacy interests include the rights of key, vulnerable and stigmatised populations, bioethics and biomedical HIV prevention research.