Seyi Adeyinka, MD, MPH

Hi! I’m Seyi (pronounced shay-yee). I grew up in Farmington, CT, and stayed in Connecticut to attend Yale for undergrad and graduate school. While in college, I studied medical anthropology. During my Master’s in Public Health, I studied chronic disease epidemiology and global health. After school, I joined the ESTEEM lab at Yale, headed by Dr. John Pachankis, as the project study coordinator for the NYC office. My research has focused primarily on women’s health and racial and sexual health disparities. During my MPH, I went to Mexico to study public policy interventions to lower the teenage pregnancy rate and wrote my thesis on prenatal care satisfaction in American Samoa. In addition to my academic work, I have a background in reproductive justice as an activist and advocate. I worked with Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights as an advisor and served as a representative at the United Nations. I’m also passionate about preventative medicine and holistic approaches to health. As a breathwork facilitator, I teach community workshops on stress management, burnout, and breathwork meditation. I am also a full-spectrum doula. During medical school, I received the Rudin Fellowship of Ethics and Humanities to interview OB/GYNs and doulas about their perspectives on the patient experience during labor. I spend my free time gardening, cooking, dancing, going to concerts, and traveling. I love music, and while in New York, I hosted a radio show called Diasporadic that traced the African roots of house music and its evolution over time. Over the course of my training, I would like to explore my interests in women’s mental health, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, and integrative psychiatry.