Dr. Ogunbajo is one of our 2020 Alonzo Smythe Yerby postdoctoral fellows and was appointed as a research fellow in IID with Dr. Kanki as his mentor since June 2020. Dr. Ogunbajo’s doctoral research at Brown University was noteworthy with a number of important studies conducted in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and the US, which resulted in publications on psychosocial health outcomes in gay and bisexual men. These are key vulnerable populations that remain high risk for HIV and face numerous obstacles in accessing HIV prevention and care services. This is a newly appreciated concern in low and middle-income settings, making the focus of his research particularly timely. Recently, Dr. Ogunbajo has conducted a multisite study in Nigeria to explore barriers to PrEP access in men who have sex with men.
