Bukola Ibitoye is a doctoral candidate at the School of Nursing, University of British Columbia. Before starting her doctoral studies, she worked as a Lecturer at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. She has an MSc. Advanced Nursing from the University of Nottingham, UK, and a BSc. Nursing from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. She is passionate about patient engagement in research, addressing global inequities in pediatric pain research and developing health interventions to improve care in children with chronic illnesses. For her doctoral project, she is developing a patient-oriented framework to guide the development and implementation of a pain toolkit of evidence-based non-pharmacological interventions. This pain toolkit, BoriZafi, will introduce Nigerian adolescents living with sickle cell disease to safe and effective non-pharmacological interventions to improve their pain experience during sickle cell crises. Bukola is married with two boys, is a scriptwriter and enjoys reading novels.