Olatunji Adetokunboh, PhD

Research Fellow

Research theme: Optimising Health Systems

Olatunji was a Researcher/National Public Health Liaison at SACEMA. Prior to joining SACEMA, he worked as Technical Advisor and Manager for various HIV and Reproductive Health projects in South Africa and Nigeria. He also worked with the Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council and Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, Stellenbosch University.

Olatunji is a medical doctor with masters and doctoral degrees in clinical epidemiology and epidemiology respectively. His research focuses on evidence synthesis and multilevel modelling approaches to infectious disease epidemiology, with special interest in vaccine-preventable diseases and HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4608-3951

Recent publications

Spatial distribution and determinants of HIV high burden in the Southern African sub-region
Adetokunboh OO, Are EB

PLOS ONE

(2024)

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301850
Provision of HIV prevention and care services to farmworkers in sub-Saharan African countries
Mlangeni N, Adetokunboh OO, Lembani M, Maloltle M, Ngah V, Nyasulu PS

Tropical Medicine and International Health

(2023)

https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13922
The overlapping burden of the three leading causes of disability and death in sub-Saharan African children
Reiner Jr RC, Hay I, Welgan CA, Troeger CE, Baumann MM, Weiss DJ, Deshpande A, Adetokunboh OO, LBD Triple Burden Collaborators

Nature Communications

(2022)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34240-6
Access to HIV healthcare services by farm workers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): a systematic review protocol
Mlangeni N, Adetokunboh OO, Lembani M, Malotle M, Nyasulu PRS

BMJ Open

(2022)

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059806
The prevalence of onchocerciasis in Africa and Yemen, 2000-2018: a geospatial analysis
Schmidt CA, Cromwell E, Hill E, Donkers KM, Schipp MF Johnson KB, Pigott DM, Hay I, Adetokunboh OO, LBD 2019 tropical Neglected Diseases Collaborators, Hay SI

BMC Medicine

(2022)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-022-02486-y
Health trends, inequalities and opportunities in South Africa’s provinces, 1990–2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study
Achoki T, Sartorius B, Watkins D, Glenn SD, Kengne AP, Oni T, Adetokunboh OO, Claassens MM, Iwu-Jaja CJ, Katoto CPDM, Nyirenda TE, Parry CDH, Seedat S, Sliwa K, Stein DJ, Tanser FC, Useh U, Zar HJ, Zuhlke LJ, Mayosi BM, Hay SI, Murray CJL, Naghavi M

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

(2022)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2021-217480
Male partner unknown HIV status as a risk factor for HIV incidence and clinical outcomes in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV programmes in 21 WHO priority countries: a systematic review protocol
Mmotsa TM, Ngandu NK, Adetokunboh OO, Nyasulu PRS

BMJ Open

(2022)

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057190
Classification schemes of COVID-19 high risk areas and resulting policies: a rapid review
Uthman O, Adetokunboh OO, Wiysonge CS, Al-Awlaqi S, Hanefeld J, El Bcheraoul C

Frontiers in Public Health

(2022)

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.769174
Mapping routine measles vaccination in low- and middle-income countries
Sbarra AN, Rolfe S, Nguyen JQ, Earl L, Galles NC, Marks A, Abbas KM, Abbasi-Kangevari M, Abbastabar H, Abd-Allah F, Abdelalim A, Abdollahi M, Abegaz KH, Abiy HAA, Abolhassani H, Abreu LG, Abrigo MRM, Abushouk AI, Accrombessi MMK, Adabi M, Adebayo OM, Adekanmbi V, Adetokunboh OO, et al

Nature

(2021)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03043-4
Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
Paulson KR, Kamath AM, Alam T, Bienhoff K, Abady GG, Abbas J, Abbasi-Kangevari M, Adetokunboh OO, et al

The Lancet

(2021)

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01207-1