Ade Osinubi

Adeiyewunmi "Ade" Osinubi (born 1996) is an American physician, documentary filmmaker, and writer. She is an emergency medicine Resident Physician at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and she is the producer of Black Motherhood through the Lens, a documentary film about four Black women's experiences in navigating reproductive health disparities. Due to her work in health equity and media, she has performed over 60 speaking engagements at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins, the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, and the National Birth Equity Collaborative. She has written multiple articles about health inequities for The Washington Post, ABC News, Huff Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Teen Vogue, Essence, and Glamour Magazine. She has been featured in Forbes, PBS, and The Brown Daily Herald. Osinubi is the recipient of the National Minority Quality Forum 40 under 40 Leader in Health Award, the 40 under 40 Black Health Connect Award, was recognized as a 2024 Boston Celtics "Hero Among Us" and is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism medical honor societies.

Early life and education Osinubi was raised in Somerset, New Jersey and is the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. Her mother, Dr. Omowunmi Osinubi, studied medicine at a well known research university in Nigeria, the University of Ibadan, and specializes in occupational and environmental health. Her father, Dr. Adewole Osinubi received his PhD at the prestigious Imperial College London and is an actuary. Osinubi attended the Groton School, a competitive New England Boarding school and graduated summa cum laude. While in high school, she co-founded the Iris Fistula Project, At the age of 17, she received admission to Brown University and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University through the Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME) where she would go on to receive a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health in 2018 and a Doctor of Medicine in 2022. Following graduation, she went on to pursue emergency medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Research and career Osinubi's mission is to eradicate health inequities impacting underserved women through media, advocacy, and research. Starting from her first year of medical school, she independently produced an award-winning documentary film entitled Black Motherhood through the Lens. She has given talks at the Black Mamas Matter Alliance National Black Maternal Health Week, and many more. Her work has also been widely recognized, notably in Forbes Magazine,

Apart from film, Ade has used writing as a medium to raise awareness about health inequities. She has published articles regarding infertility and postpartum mood disorder disparities that were featured on the front pages of The Washington Post Health and Science section It was cited on UptoDate, a highly used clinical resource tool, and contributed to race being removed as a risk factor for precocious puberty on the website. that has served as an impetus for hospitals and health organizations to work to eradicate race-based puberty guidelines across the nation. Boston Celtics 2024 "Hero Among Us" National Minority Quality Forum 40 under 40 Leader in Minority Health Award American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation Physicians of Tomorrow Scholar Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health "Exposure to 'forever chemicals' before birth linked to higher blood pressure in kids." ABC News "For Black parents with postpartum depression, help can be difficult to find." The Washington Post "Where Are All the Black Women at the Fertility Clinic?" Glamour Magazine, 2021 "How 'SKIN', A Photo Series on Colorism, Displays and Celebrates the Beautiful Shades of Blackness." Blavity