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Babatunde Olowokure, MD, MPH, PhD
Babatunde Olowokure, MD, MPH, PhD

    Dr. Babatunde Olowokure is a consultant epidemiologist with the Health Protection Agency Regional Surveillance Unit (West Midlands) based in Birmingham. He is also Director of the Health Protection Research and Development Unit, University of Birmingham. Dr. Olowokure received a medical degree from the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria and completed his training in public health medicine in the UK.He also received his masters of public health and epidemiology from the University of Birmingham and a PhD from the University of Warwick.

    Dr. Olowokure has published widely on communicable disease surveillance and epidemiology, has participated in several important global outbreak investigations including SARS and human avian influenza (H5N1) as well as been involved in pandemic preparedness activities in the Asia-Pacific region. During 2003 he traveled to Taiwan, China to lead a WHO team during the global SARS outbreak. In 2004 he spent three months in Fiji as the head of the WHO, Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response (CDS) team prior to joining the HPA in 2004.

    Schedule28 Mar 2024