Temi Ibitoye is doing an Executive Branch fellowship at the Defense Innovation Unit (2025-2026). During her first fellowship term, she was a think tank fellow at the Brown University School of Public Health’s Pandemic Center (2024-2025).
Previously, Temi worked with Global Health Security Agenda Consortium as a Science Diplomacy Fellow to investigate the role of the non-governmental sector in pandemic preparedness and disease outbreak response. She also interned at the United States Department of State, conducting a thorough analysis to identify strategic avenues for the United States to support STEM education initiatives in both rural and urban areas across the African continent. Temi holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from North Carolina State University, where she focused on evaluating and developing tools to comprehensively track and understand antimicrobial resistance and COVID-19.