Adeiyewunmi (Ade) Osinubi
Adeiyewunmi (Ade) Osinubi
Medical Student/Documentary Film Producer
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Adeiyewunmi (Ade) Osinubi is a Nigerian American fourth year medical student at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She graduated from Brown University with an undergraduate degree in Public Health in 2018 and continued on at Warren Alpert Medical School as part of the Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME). From a young age, Ade has been enthralled with storytelling and has pursued photography, filmmaking, and writing endeavors. Her work focuses on sharing the stories of minoritized communities that often go untold. At the age of 16, Ade co-founded a non-profit organization called the Iris Fistula Project which raised $20,000 to support the psychosocial rehabilitation of women who have suffered from obstetric fistula, a birth injury caused by prolonged and obstructed labor. As part of this, she travelled to Mekelle, Ethiopia to co-produce a documentary about the condition.
Starting from her first year of medical school, she independently produced an award-winning documentary film entitled “Black Motherhood through the Lens.” Black Motherhood through the Lens showcases four Black women’s experiences in navigating childbirth, infertility, and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders amongst racial health inequities. So far, the film has been accepted to 7 film festivals, notably the American Public Health Association Film Festival. Due to her leadership in the reproductive equity space, Ade has been invited to speak at organizations, universities, and colleges across the nation. She has given talks at the Black Mamas Matter Alliance National Black Maternal Health Week, the National Birth Equity Collaborative National Infertility Week, the Afro-Pics Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, and many more. Her work has also been widely recognized, notably in Forbes Magazine and on ABC News Affiliate WCVB Boston “City Line.” 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 and Glamour Magazine.
As a medical student, Ade was very involved in the Student National Medical Association (SNMA), serving on the local, regional, and national executive boards. As the President of her school’s SNMA chapter, Ade led the chapter to win the National SNMA Chapter of the Year award and the Region VII Chapter of the Year award. For the past two years, Ade has served on the National SNMA Board of Directors as the External Affairs Co-Chairperson where she ran the national social media accounts and helped develop a marketing plan for the organization. Ade was recently inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society (AΩA), the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS), and the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health. She has been the recipient of several awards including the American Medical Association (AMA) Physicians of Tomorrow Scholarship, the Brown University Medical Humanities Award, and the Alfred H. Joslin Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Life among others. She will attend Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania this summer and looks forward to continuing to use her passion for photography and film to elevate the voices of communities of color.