Debbie Fadoju, MD 💕💚

You would think I live in Baltimore… the way they Raven ‘bout me. Soon come. #DebbiesComingBackHome

This is 30. 🖤

Best season yet.

Paging Future Doctors! 🌱🥼 “Thank you Dr. Debbie!” - “I can be a doctor!” Baltimore is home to some of the best hospitals in the world. But many Baltimore City students still grow up without ever seeing medicine as something they can belong in. So I built this initiative to plant seeds early. Through mentorship, health education, and exposure to careers in healthcare, I want students to see that becoming a physician, surgeon, psychiatrist, pediatrician, or public health leader is possible for them too. But I want this work to be bigger than inspiration. I want to collect data. I want to measure impact. And I want to use that data to advocate for stronger physician pipeline programming in Baltimore City schools, sustained hospital partnerships, and funded opportunities for students who may never otherwise be exposed to careers in medicine. Because if Baltimore is helping shape the future of medicine, Baltimore City students deserve a clear pathway into it too.

Happy Mother’s Day to my favorite jet-setter. @mercy.debobeth Somehow you’ve found the best balance of loving me, pushing me, encouraging me, and spoiling me with the best kind of love! I pray to be a mom like you one day. Fiercely protective. Deeply loving. And darn-right…. funny. You love so fully and give so selflessly. And that’s why everyone calls you their mom. (But let the record reflect, you’re mine) Love you in every lifetime. But so grateful God made me yours in this one. - Your baby girl.

I actually don’t have words for how proud I am of my guys. From my mentees to Harvard residents in 5 years…. sheeeesh! Watching both of them become the physicians they worked so hard for has been incredible. I got to see the sacrifices, the discipline, the long nights, and the moments nobody else saw. And now it’s all paying off. Friends turned into family. 🤍

What a week it’s been!! My mentor @drnwando gave one of the most powerful keynotes I’ve ever heard at Harvard’s Policy Conference and invited me as her guest. She introduced me to Dean Joan Reede, Harvard’s first Black female dean, and welcomed me into rooms and conversations I once only imagined being part of. I met so many brilliant, grounded leaders in health policy! I’m leaving feeling deeply inspired by what’s possible and even more motivated for what’s to come! Immensely grateful for it all.

My mother spent three days in labor in Nigeria without pain relief giving birth to my sister @efadoju . No one offered her medication. No one explained that relief was even possible. She survived, but survival was never supposed to be the standard. More than three decades later, labor pain relief remains inaccessible for many women across sub-Saharan Africa. Over the weekend, I presented my research, “Willing but Unable: The System Failure Behind Low Epidural Use in Ghana,” at the Johns Hopkins Global Surgery Obstetrics Trauma & Anesthesiology Symposium. This project asks a simple but important question: if epidural anesthesia exists in Ghana’s major hospitals, why do so few women receive it? What we found was that many women are never even offered epidural anesthesia and, in some cases, have never heard of it as an option for labor pain relief. The low use of epidurals was not simply about personal preference. It reflected deeper structural barriers: limited staffing, inconsistent training, resource limitations, and health systems that have not prioritized equitable access to obstetric anesthesia or patient education around pain management options. These are not unsolvable problems. They are fixable failures in care and exactly the kind of systems gaps I want to confront in preventive medicine

Brown Sugar Baby ✨🍯 Had so much fun celebrating @ibkayy and Mofe at #MeetTheTaiwos !

Your favorite wedding guest. 💛

Class is about to start, and Charm School is accepting enrollment. 🤍 Meet Dr. Debbie Fadoju, a Howard University and Ohio State College of Medicine-trained OB/GYN physician now residing at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health! She is ready to give our girls the conversation most of us never got — real talk about their cycles, their bodies, and everything they deserve to understand about their health. ✨ Dr. Debbie will be leading our cycle deep dive session on May 1st and we could not be more excited to have her in the room. 🌸 Charm School is a FREE, one-day experience designed just for girls ages 9–14, brought to you by @goodprojectsdc and @goodworkscreative . 🔗 Register now — link in bio.

It’s been a minute. But also the perfect time to pick up my pen again. “On things I can’t unsee” I love my specialty (Preventive Medicine) because it refuses to let me look away. Not just from the patient in front of me, but from the system that put them there. It forces me to ask why, and gives me the tools to do the harder work of changing it. #PreventiveMedicine Details altered to protect privacy.