Thelma Okey-Adibe

Dr. Thelma Okey-Adibe serves as a Lecturer in Management at Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom, with research aligned to UN Sustainable Development Goals for health equity and reduced inequalities. Her work centers on community-engaged scholarship addressing systemic barriers faced by marginalized populations in Scotland.

Her research expertise spans community-based participatory methodologies, with dual foci on vaccine hesitancy in Black, African, and Caribbean communities and financial inclusion for BME populations. She employs collaborative frameworks that prioritize community voice in research design and implementation, particularly evident in her pandemic-era work examining trust-building mechanisms and cultural barriers in healthcare access.

Analysis of her 2022-2025 publications reveals consistent thematic focus on Scottish minority communities through multiple lenses: public health (vaccine confidence), social policy (financial exclusion), and community empowerment. Her outputs demonstrate interdisciplinary integration of epidemiology, social psychology, and community development principles.

Dr. Okey-Adibe actively contributes to academic discourse as Co-Investigator on Glasgow-focused financial inclusion research and through rigorous peer review activities. Her collaborations extend to organizations like BEMIS and community groups, emphasizing practical knowledge translation for policy impact. Current work examines ROSCAs (Rotating Savings and Credit Associations) as financial inclusion mechanisms while continuing longitudinal analysis of vaccine confidence dynamics.