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Lola Kola's passion is global mental health research that harnesses the potential “of psychological interventions for improving outcomes for patients when delivered by trained lay health-care workers” and “the use of technology to support the delivery of such interventions”, she says. Based in Ibadan, Nigeria, Kola is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Ibadan's WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Neurosciences and Drug and Alcohol Abuse in the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Psychology at the Lead City University. With colleagues at the BRiTE Center, and supported by an NIH Global Emerging Leader grant, Kola has led the design and development of a mobile phone app for the self-management of perinatal depression in adolescent mothers as an adjunct intervention to WHO's Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) within routine antenatal and perinatal services in primary care.