Oluwatosin Akande
Biographic Data
| ID | 9067516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oluwatosin Akande |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oluwatosin |
| FAMILY NAME | Akande |
| SIGNATURE | AKANDE O |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Health Organization |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6906-895X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics capacity
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) and bioinformatics are critical to infectious disease surveillance, outbreak detection and response, and the research and development of medical countermeasures. Achieving sustainable genomic surveillance requires countries to develop costed national strategies that integrate financial planning and budgeting across sequencing and bioinformatics activities. The genomics costing tool (GCT) was initially developed to…
Event-based surveillance in the WHO African region
Event-based surveillance (EBS) is a critical component of epidemic intelligence, supporting the timely detection of unusual public health events. However, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the status of EBS implementation across the WHO African region was not well documented. This study establishes a regional baseline of EBS modalities in place before the pandemic to inform future surveillance system evaluation and strengthening. We conducted a cro…
Genomics costing tool
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is crucial for monitoring and investigating infectious disease outbreaks, providing essential data for public health decisions. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly expanded pathogen sequencing and bioinformatics capacities worldwide, creating an opportunity to leverage these advancements for other pathogens with pandemic and epidemic potential. In response to the need for a systematic cost estimation approach …
Preparing for the next respiratory pathogen pandemic
The Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats (PRET) initiative takes an innovative mode-of-transmission approach to pandemic planning by advocating for integrated preparedness and response systems and capacities for groups of pathogens with common transmission pathways. The World Health Organization (WHO) launched this initiative in 2023 with the publication of PRET Module 1 addressing respiratory pathogens. Exercise PanPRET-1 is a custom…
Investing in health preparedness, response and resilience
The world has seen unprecedented gains in the global genomic surveillance capacities for pathogens with pandemic and epidemic potential within the last 4 years. To strengthen and sustain the gains made, WHO is working with countries and partners to implement the Global Genomic Surveillance Strategy for Pathogens with Pandemic and Epidemic Potential 2022–2032. A key technical product developed through these multi-agency collaborative efforts is a …
Strengthening pathogen genomic surveillance for health emergencies
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a rapid scale-up in the use of genomic surveillance as a pandemic preparedness and response tool. As a result, the number of countries with in-country SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequencing capability increased by 40% from February 2021 to July 2022. The Global Genomic Surveillance Strategy for Pathogens with Pandemic and Epidemic Potential 2022–2032 was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March …
Influences of community engagement and health system strengthening for cholera control in cholera reporting countries
The 2030 Global Task Force on Cholera Control Roadmap hinges on strengthening the implementation of multistranded cholera interventions, including community engagement and health system strengthening. However, a composite picture of specific facilitators and barriers for these interventions and any overlapping factors existing between the two, is lacking. Therefore, this study aims to address this shortcoming, focusing on cholera-reporting countr…
Covid-19 mortality rate and its associated factors during the first and second waves in Nigeria
COVID-19 mortality rate has not been formally assessed in Nigeria. Thus, we aimed to address this gap and identify associated mortality risk factors during the first and second waves in Nigeria. This was a retrospective analysis of national surveillance data from all 37 States in Nigeria between February 27, 2020, and April 3, 2021. The outcome variable was mortality amongst persons who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by Reverse-Transcriptase Poly…
Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness studies in Nigeria
The “lickety–split” development of COVID-19 vaccines 326 days from when the SARS-COV-2 virus was first sequenced is indeed one of the public health successes of the 21st century. Particularly because an 18-month target was initially considered reasonable, and having achieved this success, a “moonshot” goal to ensure that a vaccine is available within 100 days [...]
Building local capacity for emergency coordination
Public Health Emergency Operations Centres (PHEOCs) provide a platform for multisectoral coordination and collaboration, to enhance the efficiency of outbreak response activities and enable the control of disease outbreaks. Over the last decade, PHEOCs have been introduced to address the gaps in outbreak response coordination. With its tropical climate, high population density and poor socioeconomic indicators, Nigeria experiences large outbreaks…
Epidemiological comparison of the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria, February 2020–April 2021
BACKGROUND: With reports of surges in COVID-19 case numbers across over 50 countries, country-level epidemiological analysis is required to inform context-appropriate response strategies for containment and mitigation of the outbreak. We aimed to compare the epidemiological features of the first and second waves of COVID-19 in Nigeria. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective analysis of the Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis Sys…
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Building local capacity for emergency coordination
Public Health Emergency Operations Centres (PHEOCs) provide a platform for multisectoral coordination and collaboration, to enhance the efficiency of outbreak response activities and enable the control of disease outbreaks. Over the last decade, PHEOCs have been introduced to address the gaps in outbreak response coordination. With its tropical climate, high population density and poor socioeconomic indicators, Nigeria experiences large outbreaks…
Epidemiological comparison of the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria, February 2020–April 2021
BACKGROUND: With reports of surges in COVID-19 case numbers across over 50 countries, country-level epidemiological analysis is required to inform context-appropriate response strategies for containment and mitigation of the outbreak. We aimed to compare the epidemiological features of the first and second waves of COVID-19 in Nigeria. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective analysis of the Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis Sys…
Covid-19 mortality rate and its associated factors during the first and second waves in Nigeria
COVID-19 mortality rate has not been formally assessed in Nigeria. Thus, we aimed to address this gap and identify associated mortality risk factors during the first and second waves in Nigeria. This was a retrospective analysis of national surveillance data from all 37 States in Nigeria between February 27, 2020, and April 3, 2021. The outcome variable was mortality amongst persons who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by Reverse-Transcriptase Poly…
Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness studies in Nigeria
The “lickety–split” development of COVID-19 vaccines 326 days from when the SARS-COV-2 virus was first sequenced is indeed one of the public health successes of the 21st century. Particularly because an 18-month target was initially considered reasonable, and having achieved this success, a “moonshot” goal to ensure that a vaccine is available within 100 days [...]
Strengthening pathogen genomic surveillance for health emergencies
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a rapid scale-up in the use of genomic surveillance as a pandemic preparedness and response tool. As a result, the number of countries with in-country SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequencing capability increased by 40% from February 2021 to July 2022. The Global Genomic Surveillance Strategy for Pathogens with Pandemic and Epidemic Potential 2022–2032 was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March …
Influences of community engagement and health system strengthening for cholera control in cholera reporting countries
The 2030 Global Task Force on Cholera Control Roadmap hinges on strengthening the implementation of multistranded cholera interventions, including community engagement and health system strengthening. However, a composite picture of specific facilitators and barriers for these interventions and any overlapping factors existing between the two, is lacking. Therefore, this study aims to address this shortcoming, focusing on cholera-reporting countr…
Preparing for the next respiratory pathogen pandemic
The Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats (PRET) initiative takes an innovative mode-of-transmission approach to pandemic planning by advocating for integrated preparedness and response systems and capacities for groups of pathogens with common transmission pathways. The World Health Organization (WHO) launched this initiative in 2023 with the publication of PRET Module 1 addressing respiratory pathogens. Exercise PanPRET-1 is a custom…
Investing in health preparedness, response and resilience
The world has seen unprecedented gains in the global genomic surveillance capacities for pathogens with pandemic and epidemic potential within the last 4 years. To strengthen and sustain the gains made, WHO is working with countries and partners to implement the Global Genomic Surveillance Strategy for Pathogens with Pandemic and Epidemic Potential 2022–2032. A key technical product developed through these multi-agency collaborative efforts is a …
Genomics costing tool
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is crucial for monitoring and investigating infectious disease outbreaks, providing essential data for public health decisions. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly expanded pathogen sequencing and bioinformatics capacities worldwide, creating an opportunity to leverage these advancements for other pathogens with pandemic and epidemic potential. In response to the need for a systematic cost estimation approach …
Next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics capacity
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) and bioinformatics are critical to infectious disease surveillance, outbreak detection and response, and the research and development of medical countermeasures. Achieving sustainable genomic surveillance requires countries to develop costed national strategies that integrate financial planning and budgeting across sequencing and bioinformatics activities. The genomics costing tool (GCT) was initially developed to…
Event-based surveillance in the WHO African region
Event-based surveillance (EBS) is a critical component of epidemic intelligence, supporting the timely detection of unusual public health events. However, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the status of EBS implementation across the WHO African region was not well documented. This study establishes a regional baseline of EBS modalities in place before the pandemic to inform future surveillance system evaluation and strengthening. We conducted a cro…
Medicine (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Pandemic (5 works) · Disease (4 works) · Outbreak (4 works) · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (4 works) · Activity-based costing (3 works) · COVID-19 epidemiological studies (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works)