Professor of Public Health and a Community Health Physician with over 25 years of experience. He has a special bias for disease control among underserved populations. With expertise in Research methodology and Epidemiology, he has taught medical and other health-allied students for over 15 years. He has co-authored more than 100 research articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals with over 4,000 citations, an H-index of 22 and i10 index of 40. He has supervised over 25 Master’s and 5 Doctoral students.

He is a Bernard Lown visiting scholar in the Cardiovascular Health Program of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is currently the coordinator and the first Grantee for the LCHC Ganmo/Amoyo, Nigeria, with a seed grant worth $100,000 from Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health. He is also the recipient of the 2023 Bogle Award, winner of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He collaborated to study healthcare access and utilization of seven diverse communities in East and West Africa (SevenCEWA) in one group. In another group, they studied the marketing and ethical aspects of Deploying Triple Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (DeTACT) to reduce the impending anti-malaria resistance in Africa. His team, in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Save the Children UK (SCUK), has concluded a (RESONATE) study to identify the barriers and enablers to the uptake of immunization services among caregivers of children under two years of age, in selected high zero-dose states in Nigeria.

He has won some research grants and scholarships in the recent past like, like TETFund IBRF (2014), TETFund NRF (2015), and TETFund foreign scholarship for PhD. He has also won some research grants as a co-investigator, like the GSK grant on the RESONATE study (2023) worth £99,000, and the GSK BOOST study worth £280,000. He was the past coordinator of Community Based Experience and Services (COBES) unit, where he attracted the Wale “Ajumobi endowment Fund for the student COBES project”. In addition to his academic work, he also has rich experience working as a Public Health Consultant with WHO, UNICEF, Africa Union CDC and the Global Fund.

He is the current Director of the Institute of Medical Research and Training (IMRAT) of the University of Ilorin, where he has just secured a Nigerian health workforce analytics research grant worth 118 million Naira for the Institute through Clinton Health Action Initiative (CHAI), a grant from the Gates Foundation.