Dr. Oluwakemi Odukoya

Dr Oluwakemi Odukoya is an Associate Professor in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics unit of the Department of Community Health and Primary Care, College of Medicine, University of Lagos and a Honorary Consultant at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Her research priorities center on the development and implementation of low-cost scalable public health interventions to address the rising burden of cancers and cardiovascular diseases, against the backdrop of prevalent chronic communicable diseases like HIV in low and middle-income settings. She is particularly interested in addressing behavioural risk factors like tobacco use, physical inactivity and unhealthy eating. She has spent the past 20 years of her professional career, building her capacity as a researcher. Till date, she has successfully authored more than 75 academic publications, published in local and international peer-reviewed journals. She is currently the principal investigator on a NIH funded K-grant and serves as co-investigator on several research grants in Nigeria and internationally. She has received several competitive research awards at home and abroad including the NIH Global Emerging Research Leader Award; the Fogarty-Harvard-Boston-Northwestern-New Mexico Global Health Research Award; International Society Of Behavioural Medicine Early Career Award for promising global early career investigators and the Deans Award Of Recognition In Grantsmanship. She is a Fellow of the faculty of public health, National Post Graduate Medical College and holds an adjunct faculty position at the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah School Of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah.