Yemisi is a Registered Nurse/Midwife/Nurse Educator with the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria. She is a Chief Nurse Educator at the School of Nursing Bowen University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Oyo State Nigeria.

She graduated from the University of Ibadan with honors in Nursing education and a Masters degree in Public Health from the prestigious Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Louisiana, USA.

She is passionate about empowering communities with knowledge on basic steps for maintaining health. She also works with members of a social club to change risky behavior that works against health and adopt healthy lifestyles that will contribute to their general well being.

As she interacts with students in her school, she utilizes the opportunity to impact knowledge on current issues in the society.

Yemisi is passionate about connecting the dots between health and development issues. That is what informed her decision to sign up for LEAD-AWA training.

Bringing over twenty years of experience in the training of student nurses equips her with the necessary skill to further impact her community with capacity to adopt and maintain healthy living.

Yemisi won the famous Ford Fellowship award in 2005 to undertake a Masters degree in Public Health with emphasis on health systems management.

She is a member of many professional organizations prominent among which is the National Association of Nigerian Nurse's and Midwives (NANNM).

She is fluent in English and Yoruba languages.