Tolu Oni

Five candidates out of over 250 who applied for the Iso Lomso fellowship programme, which was announced in February 2016, have been selected to receive this prestigious award.

What good does it do to treat patients only to send them out to the conditions that made them sick in the first place?

Early career African researchers who have completed their doctoral studies during the preceding seven years are invited to apply for the Iso Lomso fellowship.

We need a greater focus on prevention strategies that act on the upstream determinants of health in African cities.

Prevention of cardiovascular and other non-communicable disease starts with a wish for a child.

To prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs) we need to build systems for health not just health systems, said Tolu Oni, Public Health Physician and Clinical Senior Research Associate at the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge; Honorary Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town; STIAS Iso Lomso fellow and Next Einstein Forum Fellow.

Africa is one of the fastest urbanizing regions of the world.