Ikeoluwapo Ajayi

Ikeoluwapo Olayinka Ajayi is a Nigerian epidemiologist and professor of Epidemiology and Bio Statistics at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. Her research focuses on communicable and non-communicable diseases, including malaria, hypertension, obesity, and cancers of the cervix and breast. Quotes The Nigerian government should implement the home management of malaria scale-up plan. Health care interventions are feasible at the community level and laypersons, if trained and supervised, could contribute to the health care of their communities. Getting to the people in the hard-to-reach areas and rural communities that lack amenities and drugs is an effective way of curtailing malaria in the country. If we have the community people doing it correctly themselves, it would go a long way in reducing the burden of malaria. If every home does this and does not have to go to the hospital to treat uncomplicated malaria, it would go a long way to reduce the burden of malaria. We need more research to understand why the control measures put in place have not reduced the burden and why interventions are not deployed as well as how they can be deployed External links Category:Physicians from Nigeria Category:Epidemiologists Category:Women academics from Nigeria Category:Living people