Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi

Work

Subjects:

Medicine, Healthcare

Research Keywords:

Global Health, Public Health

Collaboration interests:

Global Health and Public Health Research

Biography:

Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi is a pharmacist, a global health advocate and a budding health systems researcher with a special interest in global public health and developmental issues affecting the global south and beyond. He is committed to advancing global health through research, innovation, and advocacy. Adebisi is the Director for Research at Global Health Focus, an organization that seeks to build critical thinkers and leaders in global health towards achieving health-related Sustainable Development Goals. He is also the Director for Research and Innovation at the African Young Leaders for Global Health and a student editor at the International Journal of Medical Students. Adebisi is also the Research Lead at Campaign for Safer Alternatives, the first Africa-wide think-tank that primarily focusses on reducing smoking-related harms and diseases. As an emerging global health leader, Adebisi is interested in driving sustainable health policies with research. Adebisi has published over 50 journal articles in many high impact journals including The Lancet, Journal of Global Health, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Conflict and Health and BMC Global Health Research and Policy among others. He has also contributed 2 book chapters in a Global Health Casebook by Global Health Institute of Wuhan University and another two book chapters in a public health advocacy book by the World Federation of Public Health Associations. Adebisi has won numerous awards to attend and present in many international conferences including 22nd Amsterdam’s International AIDS Conference, World Healthcare Students Symposium in Kigali, Global Forum of Nicotine in Warsaw, First Planetary Health Conference in the Gambia, and International Lassa Fever Conference in Abuja among others. His team won the 2018 Geneva’s Innovate4AMR Global Competition organized by World Health Organization, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, South Centre Geneva, ReAct- Action on Antibiotic Resistance and the International Federation of Medical Students Associations. In 2019, Adebisi emerged as one of the winners of the second edition of the tobacco harm reduction scholarships by Knowledge-Action-Change London. That same year, Adebisi was nominated as pharmacy trainee of the year in Nigeria. In August 2020, Adebisi was awarded the joint RSTMH and National Institute of Health Research grant to conduct a study on public health responses and COVID-19 in 13 WHO-Prioritized African Countries with a focus on risk communication, surveillance, and laboratory testing capacity. In February 2021, Adebisi emerged the winner of enhanced harm reduction grant by Knowledge-Action-Change to advance the cause to reduce smoking-related diseases through research, innovation and advocacy.

Social Media

To see other contact details you need to have an active task with this person