Camille Fabiyi, PhD '14, MPH '05
2024 Dr. Naomi Morris Alumni Achievement Award for Maternal & Child Health
About
Camille Fabiyi, PhD, MPH, is a Program Officer in the Obstetric and Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics Branch (OPPTB). In this role, she manages a portfolio that includes research on medications and therapeutics for obstetric conditions, their role in lactation and breastfeeding, the inclusion of pregnant people in clinical research, and dissemination and implementation research to support perinatal health outcomes. Dr. Fabiyi chairs the NICHD PRGLAC Internal Coordination Group, which is focused on implementing recommendations from the Task Force on Research Specific to Pregnant Women and Lactating Women (PRGLAC) within NICHD. She also co-chairs the NIH Maternal and Pediatric Pharmacology Subgroup of the NIH Pediatric Research Consortium (N-PeRC). She is involved on the NIH-wide IMPROVE (Implementing a Maternal health and PRegnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone) initiative, where she is a technical advisor to the IMPROVE Community Implementation Program and previously served as a judge on a team selected for a 2023 NIH Director's Award for excellence in implementing the "RADx Tech for Maternal Health Challenge" as part of the IMPROVE Initiative, designed to address the nation’s maternal health crisis.
Prior to joining NICHD in 2022, she served as Senior Advisor for Women’s Health and Gender Research at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) from 2015 to 2022. At AHRQ, she conducted intramural research and managed a portfolio of extramural research focused on women’s health and perinatal health in the context of healthcare system quality improvement and patient safety. She provided scientific leadership and support for the development and implementation of funding solicitations to address perinatal health and women’s health, including AHRQ’s Safety Program for Perinatal Care. She also represented AHRQ on matters related to women’s health and gender research issues within AHRQ and across HHS, including serving as a member of the PRGLAC Task Force and co-chairing the PRGLAC Communications Working Group. She was a subject matter expert to the HHS Maternal Health Strategic Planning Team, coordinating AHRQ’s response for the development of the 2020 HHS Maternal Health Action Plan, and received the HHS Secretary’s Award for Distinguished Service in 2021. While at AHRQ, Dr. Fabiyi also co-chaired the Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Workgroup of the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (QDR) Interagency Workgroup, which worked to develop recommendations for new and existing measures for future QDR reports.
Before joining AHRQ, Dr. Fabiyi served as a Senior Researcher at the University of Chicago in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, where she developed and implemented research initiatives focused on sexual and reproductive health. Formerly, she served as the Project Director on federally-funded research projects in the areas of maternal and child health and aging at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). From 2004 to 2006, she served as the School Food Policy Director for the Healthy Schools Campaign, where she was responsible for helping to translate evidence-based practices around school nutrition into policy change at the district and state level. She has authored and co-authored peer-reviewed scientific publications in the areas of maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health, and health services research.
Dr. Fabiyi received her PhD in Community Health Sciences with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health and MPH in Health Policy and Administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Miami University (Ohio).