Debbie “Dada” Dada is a doctoral student in Public Health Sciences with a concentration in Dissemination and Implementation Science. Passionate about global health justice, implementation science and decolonial thought, her research interests are in improving access to infectious disease prevention and care services among marginalized populations in Sub-Saharan Africa using participatory implementation science and addressing epistemic injustices within the field. Dada has conducted equity-focused research in HIV, TB and COVID-19 in Ghana, Senegal, Chad, Uganda, Canada and the USA. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Urban Health, BMJ Open and Journal of the International AIDS Society. She earned her BA from Yale University double majoring in the History of Science, Medicine & Public Health and African Studies while in the Global Health Scholars Program at the Jackson School of Global Affairs. She completed an MSc in Translational Health Sciences at Oxford University as a fully-funded Clarendon Scholar.