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Ayomide Owoyemi

Ayomide’s background is in Medicine, public health, digital health and product management. He has had experience working as a clinician and public health physician in Nigeria. He worked as a consultant on a global fund project for HIV care and management. He has also built different digital health products for Nigeria and other African countries. He led the team that built the first COVID triage tool in Africa, and the first AI-based recommendation system for health insurance in Nigeria. He also worked with Boston Consulting Group as a Product Manager. He is presently rounding up a PhD in health informatics at the University of Illinois at Chicago with a focus on AI/ML applications in healthcare.

Skills: Python programming, SAS Programming, SQL

Email: Ayomideowoyemi@gmail.com

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Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy Candidate, Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Illinois at Chicago (2024)
  • Master of Science in Public Health, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria (2017)
  • Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile – Ife, Nigeria (2012)

Work Experience

    University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Graduate Research Assistant | September 2019 –Present

    Boston Consulting Group, Product Management Intern | June 2023- August 2023  

    Virufy, Clinical and Informatics Consultant (Volunteer) | May 2021- Present  

    The Wellviser Company (www.wellvis.org), Co-founder & Director of Operations | January 2017- February 2022  

    APIN Public Health Initiatives, Technical Associate | February 2017- June 2019  

    Orile-Agege Primary Health Centre, Medical Officer | February 2015 - October 2015  

    State Specialist Hospital, Pre-registration House Officer | September 2013 - October 2014 

Scholarly Publications

  • Owoyemi A. et al. (2023) Machine Learning Recommendation System for Health Insurance Decision Making. (Arvix)
  • Owoyemi A. et al. (2022) An Assessment of Systemic Factors and COVID-19 Mortality in Africa. Int J Public Health.
  • Owoyemi A. et al. (2022) Importance of Community-Level Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
  • Owoyemi A. et al. (2022) Digital Solutions for Community and Primary Health Workers: Lessons from Implementations in Africa. Frontiers in Digital Health.
  • Owoyemi A., Osiyemi A., Owoyemi J., Boyd A. (2021) AIM for Healthcare in Africa. In: Lidströmer N., Ashrafian H. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Springer, Cham.
  • Owoyemi A., Oyewusi W. (2021) AIM and Hackathon Events. In: Lidströmer N., Ashrafian H. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Springer, Cham.
  • Owoyemi, Ayomide et al. 2021. “Mobile Health Approaches to Disease Surveillance in Africa; Wellvis COVID Triage Tool.” Digital Health.
  • Owoyemi A, Owoyemi J, Adenekan O, and Boyd A. 2020. “Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare in Africa.” Frontiers in Digital Health 2.
  • Kitsiou S, Gerber B, Buchholz S, Kansal M, Chen J, Nawrocki L, Leigh J, Nieto A, Owoyemi A, Pressler S. Development, and pilot testing of a tailored text messaging intervention to improve self-care efficacy and health beliefs about self-care in people with heart failure. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 2020 October 01; 26(10):s89.
  • Amaechi, Uchenna Anderson et al. 2020. “Social Approaches to COVID-19 Pandemic Response: Effectiveness and Practicality in Sub-Saharan Africa.” The Pan African Medical Journal 37(2).
  • Nnaji, C. A., Owoyemi, A. J., Amaechi, U. A., Wiyeh, A. B., Ndwandwe, D. E., & Wiysonge, C. S. (2020). Taking stock of global immunization coverage progress: The gains, the losses, and the journey ahead. International Health.
  • Owoyemi A. J & Ladi-Akinyemi T.W. (2017) Health Seeking Behavior for Infants by caregivers in a Semi-Urban Area of Lagos State, Nigeria. Nigerian Journal of Health Sciences. 2017; 17(1):14-9.
  • Owoyemi A.J (2017). Combating Cervical Cancer in Nigeria. IFEMED Journal, Obafemi Awolowo University Ife. 2017; 22(1):69 – 70
  • Owoyemi A.J (2017). Harnessing the Demographic Dividend through Investments in the Health of Youths. African Union Echo 2017; Issue 1:73 – 75.
  • Owoyemi J.M, Falemara B.C and Owoyemi A. J. (2016) Noise Pollution and Control in Mechanical Processing Wood Industries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.)

Presentations & Talks

  • Owoyemi A. “Development of a Determinant Framework to Guide the Translation of AI Systems in Clinical Care” presented at the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics 2023
  • Owoyemi A. “Implementation of AI for Healthcare in LMICs: Contextual & Ethical Considerations” presented at the Google Health Bioethics Summit 2022
  • Owoyemi A. “AI and Health. Break the bias before it is too late”. Interactive session in commemoration of International Women’s Day. 2022
  • Salunke D, Owoyemi A, & Soulakis N. “Development of a Surveillance System to Track COVID-19 outbreaks in Illinois” presented at the Chicago Data Jam 2020.

Selected Projects

Certificates

  • Applied Machine Learning, LinkedIn Learning (2021)
  • Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) by University of Michigan on Coursera (2019)
  • Project Management in Health, University of Washington, USA (2019)
  • Leadership and Management in Health, University of Washington, USA (2017)
  • Health Financing Policy for Universal Health Coverage, World Health Organisation (2017)
  • Introduction to Mobile Technology for Health, Global Health eLearning Centre (2016)

 


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