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Jennifer Kehinde

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Jennifer Kehinde

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3006-2248
20232025

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Dr Jennifer Oluomachi Kehinde is a nurse-midwife and qualitative health researcher specialising in maternal and infant health. Her work integrates clinical expertise, behavioural theory, and stakeholder-engaged approaches to strengthen breastfeeding education and perinatal care systems.
 
She has advanced midwifery experience from Nigeria, including antenatal education, intrapartum care, postnatal rehabilitation, and the management of obstetric trauma. In Ireland, she practices as a registered nurse. This transnational clinical background informs her culturally responsive and equity-focused research agenda.Dr Kehinde completed her PhD at the University of Limerick in 2025.
 
Her doctoral research, grounded in Social Cognitive Theory, examined antenatal breastfeeding education in Ireland using a three-phase evidence-to-practice design. She has published three peer-reviewed papers from this work and is currently conducting a systematic review on the impact of cultural diversity on breastfeeding uptake in Ireland’s increasingly multicultural context.Her main research interests include:
  • Antenatal and postnatal breastfeeding education
  • Maternal self-efficacy and behavioural theory applications
  • Qualitative research methodologies and stakeholder engagement
  • Culturally competent maternal and reproductive health care
  • Health systems strengthening in perinatal services

As Assistant Professor at the University of Limerick, she integrates her clinical insight and qualitative expertise into teaching, student supervision, and interdisciplinary collaboration. She is committed to producing research that informs policy and improves outcomes for mothers and infants.

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, PhD Nursing and Midwifery , University of Limer-ick

Award Date: 29 Aug 2025

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality

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