Dr. Akubu-Odero joins the NINR as a Presidential Management Fellow (PMF). At NINR she is focusing on the impacts of social determinates of health and health equity in pain management and rural health in the US.
Dr. Akubu-Odero holds a DrPH from the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at the Georgia Southern University. Her doctoral dissertation was a large-scale ecological study evaluating the association between state public health funding and population health outcomes and the role of state public health funding in reducing state-level health disparities while focusing on social determinants of health through a socio-ecological lens.
Prior to joining NINR, Dr. Akubu-Odero completed her preceptorship at the CDC’s National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (NCCCP) as a health analyst on opioid misuse and liver cancer incidence rates in the United States. Dr. Akubu-Odero’s prior research was on Ethical Approaches to Mandating Influenza Vaccinations for Local Health Department Workforce in Georgia. She also worked as a researcher on a strategic plan at a non-profit (From surviving to thriving), a Breast Cancer Program for minority women who are breast cancer survivors of age 50+.
Additionally, Dr. Akubu-Odero conducted research with the University of Washington and Kenyatta National Hospital on the outcomes of pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV acquisition in discordant couples in Kenya, and a research and training program on ending Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis in Kenya.
In addition to her DrPH, Dr. Akubu-Odero earned an MS in Animal Science and an MPH from Fort Valley State University, an MBA from Kennesaw State University, and a BS in Medical Microbiology from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology.