Tolullah Oni Explained

Tolullah Oni
Birth Place:Lagos, Nigeria
Workplaces:University of Cape Town
University of Cambridge
Alma Mater:University College London
Imperial College London
Known For:International health

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. She completed house jobs in the United Kingdom and Australia, and became interested in HIV. She was made president of the Medical Students' Union. 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.

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.[15] Oni was made a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town. 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.

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.[24] [25] She was elected one of the Co-Chairs of the Global Young Academy in 2018. Oni serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Urban Health and The Lancet's Planetary Health.[23] [26] She has written for The Conversation.[27] Oni serves as a judge for the Nature Inspiring Science Award.[28]

Awards and honours

Notes and References

  1. Web site: All Fellows The AAS . 2022-04-23 . aasciences.africa.
  2. Web site: Oni Tolullah The AAS . 2022-04-23 . www.aasciences.africa.
  3. Web site: Tolu Oni – Global Gathering 2020 . 2022-04-23 . gg2020.nef.org.
  4. Web site: Africa Cultivates Innovation to Boost Global Reach. American Association for the Advancement of Science. en. 2019-06-26.
  5. Watts. Geoff. 2016-04-23. Tolullah Oni: public health specialist with a global ambition. The Lancet. 387. 10029. 1712. 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30267-7. 27116269. 40471022. 0140-6736.
  6. Group. British Medical Journal Publishing. 2019-02-20. Tolu Oni: Working on Africa's health. BMJ. en. 364. l653. 10.1136/bmj.l653. 0959-8138. 30787003. 73476391.
  7. Web site: Tollulah Oni. UCL. 2018-06-27. UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences. en. 2019-06-26.
  8. Web site: UCT gave me the space to make a difference. www.news.uct.ac.za. en. 2019-06-26.
  9. Web site: Tolullah Oni: promoting science and research to develop Africa. www.news.uct.ac.za. en. 2019-06-26.
  10. Web site: Tolu Oni – Next Einstein Forum. May 2019 . en-US. 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. 10.1186/s12879-015-0750-1. 25595711. 1471-2334. 4300166 . free .
  12. Web site: Dr Tolullah Oni . 2022-04-27 . MRC Epidemiology Unit . en-US.
  13. Web site: Tolullah Oni: promoting science and research to develop Africa . 2022-04-23 . www.news.uct.ac.za . en.
  14. Web site: Department of Health and Wellness Western Cape Government . 2022-04-26 . www.westerncape.gov.za.
  15. 2018-05-01. Real-world illness requires medical multitasking. Nature. EN. 557. 7703. 5–6. 10.1038/d41586-018-05028-w. 29717257. 2018Natur.557Q...5.. 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. English. 7. 3. e301–e302. 10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30558-8. 2214-109X. 30784626. free. 1983/5ed590b2-8316-4a5e-be9a-824044423273. free.
  17. Web site: Dr Tolullah Oni. MRC Epidemiology Unit. en-US. 2019-06-26.
  18. Web site: Tolullah Oni. Cambridge Institute of Public Health. en-GB. 2019-06-26.
  19. Web site: The Global Diet and Activity Research Group and Network (GDAR). MRC Epidemiology Unit. en-US. 2019-06-26.
  20. Web site: High-level Political Forum .:. Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform. sustainabledevelopment.un.org. 2019-06-26.
  21. Web site: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018. World Economic Forum. 2019-06-26.
  22. Web site: WHO Conference speakers. https://web.archive.org/web/20181105125144/http://www.who.int/airpollution/events/conference/speakers/en/. dead. November 5, 2018. WHO. 2019-06-26.
  23. Web site: AAS Open Research. aasopenresearch.org. 2019-06-26.
  24. Web site: Oni Tolullah The AAS. aasciences.ac.ke. 2019-06-26.
  25. Web site: Fellows 2017. en-US. 2019-06-26.
  26. Web site: Journal of Urban Health - Springer. link.springer.com. en. 2019-06-26.
  27. Web site: Tolullah Oni. The Conversation. 22 October 2015 . en. 2019-06-26.
  28. Web site: Judges Nature Research Awards for Inspiring Science and Innovating Science. www.nature.com. 2019-06-26.
  29. Web site: South African Young Academy of Science School of Public Health and Family Medicine. www.publichealth.uct.ac.za. en. 2019-06-26.
  30. Web site: 2019-03-22 . TOLU ONI IS ONE OUT OF THE 127 YOUNG GLOBAL LEADERS FOR THE CLASS OF 2019 . 2022-04-23 . en-US.
  31. Web site: Tolullah Oni: Young Nigerian with a global vision. - Free Online Library . 2022-04-23 . www.thefreelibrary.com.
  32. Web site: Tolu Oni. World Economic Forum. 2019-06-26.

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