Tolullah Oni
Tolu Oni (ORCID ID) is a Public Health Physician Scientist and urban epidemiologist, joint lead of the University of Cambridge MRC Epidemiology Unit Global Diet and Activity Research programme, and Honorary Associate Professor in Public Health at the University of Cape Town.
She leads the Research Initiative for Cities Health and Equity (RICHE|Africa), an urban health group focused on building intersectoral systems for health as well as prevention of infectious and non-communicable disease multimorbidity in the context of epidemiological transition. RICHE|Africa is thus a collaborative of transdisciplinary science, policy and societal actors, generating evidence to support development and implementation of healthy public policies in cities, and identifying creative strategies to address complex urban population health challenges in rapidly growing cities.
Recent and ongoing projects led by A/Prof Oni include:
- Intersectoral Action for Health: Integrating Health into Human Settlements Policy in Cape Town, South Africa and Douala, Cameroon (funded by LIRA) 2018-2020
- Informal Appropriation of Public Spaces for Leisure Physical Activity in Lagos, Nigeria and Yaoundé, Cameroon (funded by the British Academy) 2019-2021
- Epidemiology of NCD and NCD risk factors in HIV-positive adolescents in Cape Town (funded by Bristol Myers Squibb foundation) 2017-2020
- Investigating the effectiveness of models of HIV/ NCD integrated care in Cape Town (funded by Wellcome Trust) 2015-2018