Post-Doctoral Research Associate
After several years in clinical laboratories as a microbiologist, parasitologist, and clinical scientist, I made my transition into public health as I believe that the combination of clinical laboratory sciences and public health research is key and crucial to a comprehensive and extensive understanding of individual and population health.
My higher education started at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria where I got my first degree with honours in Microbiology. I then proceeded to the University of Portsmouth where I was awarded a Master of Science in Biomedicine, and PhD in medical and applied microbiology by University of Sunderland.
Prior to my doctoral studies, I worked in several private and government laboratories in various capacities. During the dreadful Covid-19 pandemic period, I worked as one of the senior scientists and later as an operations manager at the lighthouse laboratory at the integrated Covid hub, managed by The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
I am an associate member of FUSE, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, member of the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine (UKSBM) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health.
My research area stems from the passion to tackle health inequalities as it affects African residents and immigrants, helping to inform not only healthcare policy and practice but also individual and population health behavioural change.
Research
My current research includes:
A study funded by Prostate Cancer Research titled 'A co-designed and culturally appropriate intervention to tackle barriers to early diagnosis of prostate cancer for Black men in Scotland and the North-East of England: a community-centred participatory approach'.
Publications
Conference or Workshop Item
Oyeniyi, Olugbenga Sam, Robb, Katie, Jonathan, Ling, Kotzur, Marie, Eberhardt, Judith, Kabuye, John, Kalemba, Martin and Christie-de Jong, Floor (2023) Early diagnosis of PROstate CANcer for Black men (PROCAN-B): identifying barriers and facilitators. In: 67th Annual Scientific Meeting - Society for Social Medicine & Population Health, 6-8 September 2023, Newcastle, United Kingdom.. (Submitted)
Christie-de Jong, Floor, Oyeniyi, Olugbenga Sam, Ling, Jonathan, Kotzur, Marie, Eberhardt, Judith, Kabuye, John and Robb, Katie (2022) A co-designed and culturally appropriate intervention to tackle barriers to early diagnosis of prostate cancer for black men (aged 45+) in Scotland and the North-East of England: a community-centred participatory approach. In: Black in Cancer Conference, 10-11 October 2022, London.
Thesis
Oyeniyi, Olugbenga Sam (2019) THE DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS FOR THE IMPROVED DETECTION, IDENTIFICATION AND PHENOTYPIC CHARACTERISATION OF DIFFICULT-TO-CULTURE MICRO-ORGANISMS. Doctoral thesis, UNSPECIFIED.
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