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Tolullah "Tolu" Oni (born 1980) is a Nigerian urban epidemiologist at the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge.[1] She is a NextEinstein Forum Fellow[2] and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.[3]

Early life and education

Oni was born in Lagos.[4] At the age of seven Oni watched a documentary about cardiac surgery and wanted to become a pediatric cardiac surgeon.[5][6] She attended boarding school.[7] She trained in medicine with international health at University College London, where she earned a Bachelor's degree in 2001.[7] She completed house jobs in the United Kingdom and Australia, and became interested in HIV.[5] She was made president of the Medical Students' Union.[7] Oni was a doctoral student at Imperial College London, where she started to study health outcomes.[8][9] She explored how social determinants impacted health conditions, and finished her PhD in 2012.[10][11] Oni was awarded the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Medical Student Elective Prize, and moved to South Africa.[7]

Research and career

Oni worked in South Africa, where she established an interdisciplinary program Research Initiative for Cities Health and Equity (RICHE) at the University of Cape Town in 2007.[12] RICHE works on urban health, identifying opportunities to implement public health policies in fast growing cities.[13] She worked as a registrar in the Western Cape Department of Health.[14] She became interested in interventions that can manage chronic infections and non-communicable diseases.[5][15] Oni was made a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town.[10] Here, she developed the University of Cape Town's first undergraduate degree in global health, which launched in 2014.[16] The course created by Oni is one of the first to teach global health from the perspective of the Global South.[5]

She moved to the University of Cambridge, where she joined the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit as a senior research fellow.[17][18] Here she is a member of the Global Diet and Activity Research Group and Network (GDAR) network, which works to prevent non-communicable diseases in low-income countries.[19]

Public engagement and policy

Oni has presented at the United Nations, the World Health Organization and World Economic Forum.[20][21][22] Onu is a board of Future Earth and the African Academy of Sciences platform for open research.[23] Oni is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, and was elected a Fellow of NextEinstein in 2015 and the Stellenbosch University Institute for Advanced Study in 2017.[10][24][25][26] She was elected one of the Co-Chairs of the Global Young Academy in 2018.[4] Oni serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Urban Health and The Lancet's Planetary Health.[23][27] She has written for The Conversation.[28] Oni serves as a judge for the Nature Inspiring Science Award.[29]

Awards and honours

  • 2013 Elected to the South African Young Academy of Science[30]
  • 2014 Young Physicians Leadership Programme by the Inter-Academy Medical Panel[31][32]
  • 2019 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader[33]

References

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  2. ^ "Oni Tolullah | The AAS". www.aasciences.africa. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  3. ^ "Tolu Oni – Global Gathering 2020". gg2020.nef.org. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  4. ^ a b "Africa Cultivates Innovation to Boost Global Reach". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  5. ^ a b c d Watts, Geoff (2016-04-23). "Tolullah Oni: public health specialist with a global ambition". The Lancet. 387 (10029): 1712. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30267-7. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 27116269. S2CID 40471022.
  6. ^ Group, British Medical Journal Publishing (2019-02-20). "Tolu Oni: Working on Africa's health". BMJ. 364: l653. doi:10.1136/bmj.l653. ISSN 0959-8138. PMID 30787003. S2CID 73476391.
  7. ^ a b c d UCL (2018-06-27). "Tollulah Oni". UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  8. ^ "UCT gave me the space to make a difference". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  9. ^ "Tolullah Oni: promoting science and research to develop Africa". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  10. ^ a b c "Tolu Oni – Next Einstein Forum". May 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  11. ^ Oni, Tolu; Youngblood, Elizabeth; Boulle, Andrew; McGrath, Nuala; Wilkinson, Robert J; Levitt, Naomi S (2015-01-17). "Patterns of HIV, TB, and non-communicable disease multi-morbidity in peri-urban South Africa- a cross sectional study". BMC Infectious Diseases. 15 (1): 20. doi:10.1186/s12879-015-0750-1. ISSN 1471-2334. PMC 4300166. PMID 25595711.
  12. ^ "Dr Tolullah Oni". MRC Epidemiology Unit. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
  13. ^ "Tolullah Oni: promoting science and research to develop Africa". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  14. ^ "Department of Health and Wellness | Western Cape Government". www.westerncape.gov.za. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
  15. ^ "Real-world illness requires medical multitasking". Nature. 557 (7703): 5–6. 2018-05-01. Bibcode:2018Natur.557Q...5.. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-05028-w. PMID 29717257. S2CID 256768263.
  16. ^ London, Leslie; Doyal, Lesley; Ajuwon, Ademola; Kaseje, Margaret; Adongo, Philip; Fonn, Sharon; Yudkin, John S.; Oni, Tolu (2019-03-01). "Global public health starts at home: upstream approaches to global health training". The Lancet Global Health. 7 (3): e301–e302. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30558-8. hdl:1983/5ed590b2-8316-4a5e-be9a-824044423273. ISSN 2214-109X. PMID 30784626.
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  18. ^ "Tolullah Oni". Cambridge Institute of Public Health. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  19. ^ "The Global Diet and Activity Research Group and Network (GDAR)". MRC Epidemiology Unit. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  20. ^ "High-level Political Forum .:. Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform". sustainabledevelopment.un.org. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  21. ^ "World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  22. ^ "WHO | Conference speakers". WHO. Archived from the original on November 5, 2018. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  23. ^ a b "AAS Open Research". aasopenresearch.org. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  24. ^ Next Einstein Forum (2016-03-18), NEF Fellows Spotlight Session: Tolu Oni, retrieved 2019-06-26
  25. ^ "Oni Tolullah | The AAS". aasciences.ac.ke. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  26. ^ "Fellows 2017". Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  27. ^ "Journal of Urban Health - Springer". link.springer.com. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  28. ^ "Tolullah Oni". The Conversation. 22 October 2015. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  29. ^ "Judges | Nature Research Awards for Inspiring Science and Innovating Science". www.nature.com. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  30. ^ "South African Young Academy of Science | School of Public Health and Family Medicine". www.publichealth.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  31. ^ "TOLU ONI IS ONE OUT OF THE 127 YOUNG GLOBAL LEADERS FOR THE CLASS OF 2019". 2019-03-22. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
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  33. ^ "Tolu Oni". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
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