Publications by authors named "Olaoluwa Pheabian Akinwale"
Health research mentorship in low-income and middle-income countries: a global qualitative evidence synthesis of data from a crowdsourcing open call and scoping review.
BMJ Glob Health
January 2024
Article Synopsis
- Research mentorship is crucial for advancing science, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), but effective strategies for cultivating it are limited.
- A global qualitative synthesis, commissioned by WHO/TDR, incorporated data from an open call and a scoping review to identify practical strategies for enhancing mentorship in health research.
- Key strategies identified include recognizing mentorship as a team responsibility, leveraging existing resources, using digital tools for mentorship matching, promoting a culture of mentorship, and encouraging peer mentorship among researchers at similar career stages.
Introduction: Toxoplasma gondii infection has been described as the most widespread zoonotic infection of humans and other animals. Information concerning T. gondii infection among schoolchildren is unavailable in Lagos City, Nigeria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) exist in slums as the inhabitants adopt an urbanized lifestyle which places them at a higher risk for. Lack of knowledge about the morbidity, complications and the method of control contributes to a large percentage of undetected and untreated cases.
Methods: This cross-sectional survey polled 2,434 respondents from Ijora Oloye, Ajegunle and Makoko, three urban slums in Lagos metropolis, southwestern Nigeria between June 2010 and October 2012.
Biting on human body parts of Simulium vectors and its implication for the manifestation of Onchocerca nodules along Osun River, southwestern Nigeria.
J Vector Borne Dis
September 2012
Background: The biting preference of Simulium vectors has been known to influence the distribution of Onchocerca nodules and microfilariae in human body. There is, however, variation in biting pattern of Simulium flies in different geographical locations. This study investigates the biting pattern on human parts by Simulium vectors along Osun river system where Simulium soubrense Beffa form has been implicated as the dominant vector and its possible implication on the distribution of Onchocerca nodules on human body along the river.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The status of Toxoplasma gondii infection among primary schoolchildren (PSC) of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe (DRSTP), West Africa, remains unknown to date.
Methods: A serologic survey and risk factors associated T. gondii infection among PSC in the DRSTP was assessed by the latex agglutination (LA) test and a questionnaire interview including parents' occupation, various uncomfortable symptoms, histories of eating raw or undercooked food, drinking unboiled water, and raising pets, was conducted in October 2010.