Dr. Adetifa is a paediatrician and epidemiologist with expertise in Infectious Diseases. He is a fellow of the West Africa College of Physicians in Paediatrics, holds a Diploma of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; and a Masters degree in Epidemiology. He first joined the unit as Research Clinician in 2004 on the Tuberculosis Case Contact (TBCC) research platform. He is currently responsible for the MRC Global Fund TB Epidemiology projects portfolio.
Professional Background
He had his paediatric training at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria where he looked at the interaction between malaria and paediatric HIV/AIDS. For his M.Sc work at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, he described the epidemiology of pneumococcal carriage in a Nigerian population. His research interests are clinical and infectious diseases epidemiology particularly paediatric HIV/AIDS and TB; delivery of TB diagnostics and care, assessment of novel diagnostics for TB infection and disease including biomarkers for disease and protection; pneumococcal carriage and infections and operational research for disease control activities. He is also involved in clinical mentorship (in-house and internet based) for HIV training, evidence-based medicine and systematic reviews. He was an EDCTP Career Development Fellow from 2007-9.
He is a member of the Nigerian and European Societies for Paediatric Infectious Diseases, International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (Childhood TB training Working Group), the Stop TB New Diagnostics Working Group. He also belongs to the HIV/AIDS Cochrane Review Group.
His current work includes;
- Clinical and spatial epidemiology of TB in The Gambia.
- Epidemiological studies of interferon gamma release assays and their utility as markers of treatment efficacy in latent infection and active TB disease.
- Research into Biomarkers of protective immunity in the context of HIV/AIDS in Africa as a part of a BMGF funded grand challenge consortium.
- Epidemiology of pneumococcal carriage and disease in Nigerian children.
