Olanrewaju Oladimeji, MB;BS, MSc, MPA, FRSPH, PhD is a Professor of Epidemiology and Implementation Research. He is the head of Doctoral Programs in the Department of Public Health at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University. He is a member of the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS), an NRF-Y1-rated researcher, and a former visiting scholar in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He obtained a PhD in Public Health from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He later received a prestigious scholarship award for his Postdoctoral Fellowship in Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA. He has spent over a decade in science leadership and research coordination. He has adjunct professorial affiliations with a few Universities where postgraduate candidates and junior researchers are supervised and mentored. He is an adjunct Professor of Public Health at Durban University of Technology in South Africa and a visiting Professor of Community Health at the University of Jos in Nigeria. He has supervised over 45 postgraduate candidates up to date. He has been a Co-Investigator in many funded research projects, Principal Investigator of implementation and capacity development grants. His academic and research outputs have earned him several publications in DHET-accredited journals, and the impact of his research is reflected in many high-profile citations (Google Scholar: citation index is 47,976, h-index is 33, and his i10-index is 62. Based on his scholarly visibility, He is a Guest Editor for the Scientific report of a special collection, “Health disparities,” and an Editorial Advisor to F1000 Gateway Global Public Health. He is also an editorial board member for Nature Scientific Reports, academic editor for PLOS One, Pan Africa Medical Journals, and associate editor for Biomedical Central. He serves as a grants review consultant for grant applications for various international organizations, including the United Nations Office of Special Projects and the Stop TB Partnership in Geneva. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), a Fellow of the African Scientific Institute (ASI), a Fellow of Southern African Science Leadership Program (S-ASLP), a member of the American College of Epidemiology (MACE), a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the American Thoracic Society (ATS). In March 2024, he received a Bronze Scientific Merit Award for his exceptional contributions to Health Research in South Africa.
