Olugbenga G. Ogedegbe, MD, MPH

Because of my commitment to improving health outcomes of minoritized populations, I chose a career in primary care with a focus on understanding the role of social determinants of health in low-income and minoritized populations. 

As a clinical epidemiologist, health services researcher, and implementation reseach scientist, the programmatic focus of my research is to develop strategies to translate evidence-based interventions into clinical practices. I have led numerous NIH-funded studies targeted at cardiovascular disease risk reduction by using clinic-community linkage models to address inequities in health outcomes among Black and Hispanic populations.

My work in Global Health is focused on the implementation of task-shifting strategies for management of cardiovascular diseases, and building research capacity in low-middle income countries, with a particular focus on Africa. My research team pioneered the use of task-shifting strategy for hypertension control in Ghana, a strategy that was adopted by the Ghana Health Services as new policy. My team is now evaluating the integration of this model into management of hypertension in people living with HIV and AIDS in Nigeria in several NIH-funded studies. 

As a leading integrated academic health system in the U.S., NYU Langone Health has a responsibility to identify and eliminate health disparities wherever they exist within our health system – this is the impetus for the establishement of the Institute for Excellence in Health Equity (IEHE) in 2021. In my role as Founding Director of IEHE, I lead the strategic visioning for integrating health equity solutions into NYU Langone Health System.

I am a member of the National Academy of Medicine and I have served on many guideline committees including the United States Preventive Services Task Force, the NIH and American Heart Association, and others. I particularly enjoy mentoring junior factory, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and have received many awards and NIH-funded training grants to support these initiatives.