Dr. Moradeke (Mora) Bamgboye is an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Science & Technology Policy Fellow on the Korea and Mongolia desk at the U.S Department of State. She oversees a portfolio that covers U.S - Republic of Korea cooperation on Environment, Science, Technology, Health, Food Security, Development, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Island Countries (PICs). Before joining the Department of State, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cardiac biophysics. Prior to that, Mora travelled in Europe and in Nigeria, where she volunteered with Education as a Vaccine (EVA), a Nigerian non-profit organization. At EVA, she created programs and wrote proposals to advance female sexual health and advocate for gender equality in Nigeria. She holds a Ph.D in Molecular Medicine from University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore (UMB), a Master’s in Public Health from UMB and a B.SC in Microbiology from Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
