Ismail Adeshina Abdus-Salam

Chief Epidemiologist,Lagos State.

Consultant Public Health Physician and Director Epidemiology, Biosecurity and Global Health, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Lagos, Nigeria

He is highly motivated, industrious, a team player, and possesses exceptional interpersonal,problem-solving, and analytical skills with successful outcomes in improving the health systems in Lagos State in line with the THEMES agenda. Lead Case Management, Infection Control, & Member, Strategic Team, Emergency Ebola Operations Centre (EEOC) [2014], Lagos, Nigeria. Incident Manager, Public Health Emergency Operations Centre, COVID-19 Pandemic, Lagos State [2019-2022].

Date of birth: November 21, 1967

Country of birth:Nigeria

State of Origin:Lagos State

State of Residence: Lagos State

• International Federation of Biosafety Association [IFBA]- 2019
• Healthcare Leadership Academy’s Leadership Enhancement and Accountability for the Public Sector [LEAPS] Programme- 2017

• Member of the team of consultants involved in the analysis of data from Lagos State Wide Hypertension and Diabetes screening and report presentation, involving four rounds of the exercise (2007-2012).
• A supervisor in the Amsterdam Community Health Insurance Survey for market women in selected markets in Lagos State (2009/2010).
• One of the resource persons in Health Impact Assessment (HIA) for O Liquefied Natural Gas Project in Lagos, Nigeria (2011).
• Occupational Health & Safety Consultancy for BSS Consulting firm on Training of Staff of Nigeria Breweries PLC (2009-2011)
• Member of the Health Record Officers Registration Board of Nigeria [HRORBN]-April 2019- August 2023.
• Member, Health Research Ethics Committee [HREC] and Animal Care Health Research Ethics Committee [ACUREC], College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Idi-Araba.

• Part Time Coordinator of Allied Health Professional Courses (Community Health, Environmental Health and Health Information Management) at Houdegbe North American University, Cotonou, Benin Republic. (October 15 2010- December 2012)
• Lecturing of Medical Students on Epidemiology, Occupational and Environmental Health. (2009-2010).
• Lecturing on Research Methodology at Master’s degree programme on Paediatric Endocrinology for West Africa. (2012).

• Publicity Secretary, Association of Public Health Physician of Nigeria (APHPN), Lagos Chapter, Nigeria (2011-2014).
• Member, Nigerian Medical Association, Lagos State Chapter, Nigeria.
• Member, Islamic Medical Association of Nigeria, Lagos Branch, Nigeria.
• Fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, Faculty of Public Health, 2012.
• Senior Full Member, Emergency, Crisis, Disaster, Safety, Environmental & Risk Management Institute, 4th December,2010.
• Nigeria Biosafety Association
• International Federation of Biosafety Association [IFBA]

• Respiratory Symptoms and Lung Function Assessment of Street Sweepers of Lagos Waste Management Authority and Junior Staff of Surulere Local Government, Lagos State Nigeria. Journal of Medical Safety ISSN 1349-5232, 2013: 42-48.
• Socio-demographic correlates of Modifiable Risk factors for Hypertension in a Rural Local Government Area of Oyo State, South-West, Nigeria. International Journal of Hypertension, Vol. 2014, Article ID 842028.
• Comparative Assessment of Blood Lead Levels of automobile Technicians in organized and roadside garages in Lagos, Nigeria. Journal of Environmental and Public Health, Vol. 2015, Article ID 976563.
• Development of adjustment disorders following nosocomial infections with Ebola Virus Disease in Lagos, Nigeria. American Journal of Psychiatry, 2014. 14-12-1576.
• Lassa fever outbreak and contact tracing in Lagos State, Nigeria, January 2016. Pan African Medical Journal Conference proceedings. 10.11604/pamj.cp.20.
• An Evaluation of psychological distress and social support of survivors and contacts of Ebola Virus Disease infection and their relative in Lagos, Nigeria- A cross sectional study. BMC Public Health. 2016. Doi:10:1186/s 12889-015-2167-6
• Psychiatric treatment of a healthcare worker after infection with Ebola Virus in Lagos, Nigeria. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2014. Doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.1412-1576
• Biosafety level-2 laboratory diagnosis of Zaire Ebola Virus Disease imported from Liberia to Nigeria. African Journal of Laboratory Medicine. 2016, doi:10.4102/ajlm.v5il.468.
• Clinical Profile and Containment of Ebola Virus Disease Outbreaks in Two Large West African Cities, Nigeria. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. Doi:10.1016/Ijid.2016.08.011
• Descriptive Epidemiology of coronavirus disease 2019, 27 February-6 June 2020. Epidemiology and Infection. 2020:148:1-42.
• Timeliness of public health emergency response: A case study of Ebola Virus Disease [EVD] scare in Lagos, South-Western Nigeria, 2019. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. Vol.101(1):271
• A National Survey of public awareness of antimicrobial resistance in Nigeria. BMC open access. [2020], 9:72.  HYPERLINK "https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-020-00739-0" https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-020-00739-0.
• Clinical presentation, case management and outcomes for the first 32 COVID-19 patients in Nigeria. Pan African Medical Journal
• May 2020 DOI: 10.11604/pamj.supp.2020.35.2.23262
• Presenting Symptoms and Predictors of Poor Outcomes Among 2,184 Patients with COVID-19 in Lagos State, Nigeria. 2021, Vol. 102:226-232
• Long COVID’: Persistent COVID-19 symptoms in survivors managed in Lagos State, Nigeria. BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021:304
• Full autopsy in a confirmed COVID-19 patient in Lagos, Nigeria- A case report. Elsevier, Human Pathology: Case Reports 24 [2021]: 200524
• Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Nigeria: Laboratory Preparedness and Report of Index Case in Nigeria. PAMJ One Health, 2021
• Psychosocial health effects of COVID-19 on persons in treatment centers in Lagos Nigeria. Elsevier, Brain, Behavior & Immunity-Health. 2021, 16(2):100284
• Morbidity and mortality outcomes of COVID-19 patients with and without hypertension in Lagos, Nigeria: a retrospective cohort study. Global Health Research and Policy (2021) 6:26  HYPERLINK "https://doi.org/10.1186/s41256-021-00210-6" https://doi.org/10.1186/s41256-021-00210-6.
• Outcomes of COVID-19 patients with comorbidities in southwest Nigeria. [2021]PLoS ONE 16(3): e0248281. https://doi. org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248281.
• From Ebola to COVID-19: Emergency Preparedness and Action Plans in Lagos, Nigeria. Globalization and Health (2021) 17:79. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-021-00728-x
• Assessing the capacity of symptoms scores to predict COVID-19 positivity in Nigeria: A national derivation and validation cohort study. BMJ open 2021;11:e049699.
• Clinical presentation of COVID-19-positive and -negative patients in Lagos Nigeria: A comparative study. Niger Postgrad Med J 2021; 28:75-80.
• Length of Hospital Stay of COVID-19 Patients managed at the Lagos State Isolation Centres during the First Wave of the Pandemic. West African Journal of Medicine, 2022, Vol. 39(3).
• Incidence rate of COVID-19 mortality and its associated factors during the first and second waves in Nigeria: A retrospective cohort study.  HYPERLINK "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000169" https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000169
• First and second waves of COVID-19: A Comparative study of the clinical presentation and outcome among hospitalized patients in Lagos, Nigeria. West African Journal of Medicine, West African Journal of Medicine 2024, 41(12):7-15

• Dr Olusegun Ogboye, Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Lagos, Nigeria, +2348023090970, dr_ogboye@yahoo.com
• Prof Adebayo Onajole, Professor of Public Health & Consultant Public Health Physician, College of Medicine University of Lagos & Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria, +2348033014278, bayonajole@yahoo.com
• Prof Sunday Omilabu, Professor of Virology & Consultant Virologist, College of Medicine University of Lagos & Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria, +2348023119431, omilabusa@yahoo.com

• Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria (APHPH) National Conferences at Lagos State, Abuja and Cross River State, Nigeria in 2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively.
• Society for Interdisciplinary Research (SIR) Conference at Fountain University, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria. Presented Paper on Climate Change and Public Health. (2010)
• Mandatory Continuous Training of Emergency, Crisis, Disaster, Safety, Environmental & Risk Management Institute, 3rd December,2010.
• Respiratory symptoms and Lung function assessment of street sweepers of Lagos waste management authority and junior staff of Surulere Local Government, Lagos State, Nigeria (Presented at conference of Union of Risk Management for Preventive Medicine). (2012)
• National Workshop to review National Diploma/Higher National Diploma Curriculum for Health Information Management Programme, @ Etim Top Suites, Opposite Law School, Bwari-Abuja, 6th -12th October 2013
• West African Sub-Regional Workshop on Emergency Preparedness and Outbreak Response to Lassa fever and other highly infectious diseases @ Best Western Homeville Hotel, Benin City, Nigeria, 16th -21st February 2014.
• First African Scientific Conference on Ebola Virus Disease, Dakar, Senegal. (January 2015].
• West African Disaster Preparedness Initiative (WADPI) Conference in November 2015 at Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Accra, Ghana.
• Presentation on the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in Nigeria at Ebola Workshop for West African Countries in Yamoussoukur, Cote d’Ivoire in February 2016.
• Presentation on Ebola Virus Disease, Lessons learnt from Nigeria experience at Interest Workshop (International Workshop on Treatment, Pathogenesis and Prevention Research Limited Settings) at Yaounde Hilton Hotels, Cameroon (3rd -6th May, 2016).
• 2nd African Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity: Strenthening African health systems-Building resilience and capacity to tackle Epidemic Threats: Biosecurity and Infrastructure in the Aftermath of the Ebola Outbreak, 27th-29th July 2016
• 4th African Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity: “Managing the spectrum of data generated during disease outbreaks and biosecurity threat’’, 26th -28th September 2018, Radisson Blue Hotel, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
• 5th African Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity: Climate change and conflict: Implications for emerging infectious diseases and biosecurity in Africa, @ Sheraton Hotels, Abuja, 7th-9th August 2019
• 6th African Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity: Strengthening Africa's resilience in tackling emerging biosecurity threats: Lessons learnt from COVID-19 pandemic @ Civic Center, Victoria Island, Lagos, 4th -6th November 2020
• 7th African Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity: Universal approach to addressing biosecurity threats: Genomic Intelligence and Vaccines @ Civic Center, Victoria Island, Lagos, 27th-29th October 2021.
• 7th African Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity: Strengthening health security and mitigating threats in Africa, @ Civic Center, Victoria Island, Lagos, 2nd -4th November 2022.
• 2nd International Conference on Public Health in Africa [CPHIA], Kigali Convention Centre, Kigali Rwanda, 13th -15th December 2022.
• 5th Africa Health Agenda International Conference [AHAIC] 2023, @ Kigali Convention Centre, Kigali, Rwanda, 5th-8th March 2023.
• Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology [PHA4GE] Conference, @ Cavalli Estate, Cape Town, South Africa, 30th October-1st November 2023.