Dr Adewunmi Akingbola is a medical doctor from Lagos State University College of Medicine, also an infectious diseases epidemiologist trained at the University of Cambridge. He has over 7 years of experience leveraging epidemiological expertise to tackle the menace of infectious diseases in Nigeria under the aegis of HealthDrive Nigeria, a project he founded where he conducts free tests, and highly-subsidized vaccinations, especially against Viral Hepatitis B. His groundbreaking research at Cambridge on comparing complete case analysis and multiple imputation techniques in estimating Hepatitis C prevalence emerged as the winning research of the Cambridge Public Health Early Career Researcher Competition in 2024. Dr Adewunmi Akingbola has served as a peer-reviewer for PLOS ONE, Frontiers of Public Health, Journal of Rare Diseases, and Discover Public Health journals. He was one of the three invited judges in the Oxbridge Acadian Scholars 3-minute research competition where he judged the works of 18 scholars from Oxford and Cambridge. He has presented his research works at several national and international conferences including the Cambridge West Hub for Pandemic Preparedness and One Health Event, Cambridge Annual Infectious Diseases Symposium, Cambridge Public Health Conference, and more recently, the United Kingdom Health Security Agency 2025 conference which engages over 1500 epidemiologists and public health professionals. He is a recipient of the 2020 AfriSAFE Community Hero awards by HSENations, the 2021 Princess Diana Awards, and more recently, he was named one of the 12 scientists globally to receive the prestigious 2024 Passion in Science Awards by New England BioLabs, Boston, USA, amongst others.