Aisha Adamu

Aishatu is a public health physician and epidemiologist with over 15 years’ experience in clinical and public health practice and research in public health, infectious diseases and vaccines. Aishatu trained as a medical doctor at the University of Jos, Nigeria and did her residency training in community medicine. She holds the Fellowship of the West African College of Physicians in Public Health, a Master’s in Epidemiology and a PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, (LSHTM). 

Aishatu’s research interests in infectious diseases and vaccine epidemiology centre around surveillance and vaccine impact assessment, particularly with the aim of generating evidence-based knowledge that can be translated to policy and implemented to improve health outcomes. Her interests in public health practice have centred around childhood immunisation and epidemic-prone diseases, and outbreak response. She has worked in different clinical, teaching and research contexts in Aminu Kano teaching Hospital, Nigeria, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research programme, Kenya, and Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.