Dr John Olajide Akanni
AfOx Fellow 2023
John Olajide Akanni is a Bio-Mathematician and a Mathematical Modeler. Dr Akanni is an AfOx Mathematics Institute Visiting Fellow at the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology and the Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, as part of the Africa Oxford Visiting Fellowship Programme.
Akanni obtained B. Tech (Pure and Applied Mathematics), M. Tech (Applied Mathematics), and Ph.D (Applied Mathematics) from the Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria. He is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, KolaDaisi University, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. He is also Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Mathematics, Universitas of Airlangga, Indonesia.
Dr Akanni is a member of several professional bodies such as the Mathematical Association of Nigeria, the Nigerian Society for Mathematical Biology, the Nigerian Mathematical Society, the Nigerian Association of Mathematical Physics, the International Association of Engineers, the Black in Mathematics Association, and the African Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on modelling infectious diseases and human behavior dynamics.
During his visit to the University of Oxford, Dr Akanni will be working on fitting the deterministic model of Onchocerciasis disease to data from Nigeria using Bayesian methods. He aims to evaluate the impact of control strategies, including public health education, fumigation, and mass drug administration, in the most cost-effective way of reducing disease. Additionally, he will investigate how climate change may affect transmission.