Samantha Akingbola
Education
Akingbola attended the University of Ottawa from 2009-2013 where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Health Sciences. She then attended the State University of New York at Albany from 2014-2015 where she received her Master of Public Health.
Career and Affiliations
New York State Department of Health
In 2015, Akingbola worked at the New York State Department of Health as a public health intern in the Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, and then the office of the Medical Director of the Center for Environmental Health.1)
Public Health England
Akingbola worked for Public Health England between June 2016 and June 2018.2)
Heart & Stroke Foundation
From September 2018 - February 2019, Akingbola worked as an intake specialist at the Heart & Stroke Foundation. The foundation is funded by Allergan, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Canadian National Railway (a Bill Gates company), Edwards Lifesciences, Medtronic, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi, Servier, and Shoppers Drug Mart.3)
Public Health Ontario
Akingbola worked at Public Health Ontario from March 2019 - December 2020.4)
Toronto Public Health
Akingbola is an epidemiologist at Toronto Public Health.5) 6)
Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table
Akingbola is an observer on the Modelling Consensus Table, in partnership with the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table.7)
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Samantha Akingbola, MPH. LinkedIn. Retrieved May 9, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-akingbola-mph-67973516a/
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Akingbola, S., Saunders, K., Yelloly, J., & Dennis, N. (2017, January). A Summary of Child Health Profiles in the West Midlands. Learning for Public Health West Midlands. https://web.archive.org/web/20220509222500/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.lfphwm.org.uk%2Flibrary%2Fsearch-results%2Fdoc_download%2F859-a-summary-of-child-health-profiles-in-the-west-midlands
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Our partners. Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. Retrieved May 9, 2022, from https://archive.ph/LR0SK
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van Ingen, T., Akingbola, S., Brown, K. A., Daneman, N., Buchan, S. A., & Smith, B. T. (2021). Neighbourhood-level risk factors of COVID-19 incidence and mortality. medRxiv. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.27.21250618
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Yuan, P., Aruffo, E., Tan, Y., Yang, L., Ogden, N. H., Fazil, A., & Zhu, H. (2022). Projections of the transmission of the Omicron variant for Toronto, Ontario, and Canada using surveillance data following recent changes in testing policies. Infectious Disease Modelling, 7(2), 83–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idm.2022.03.004
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Our Partners. Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved May 9, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220509143427/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/our-partners/