Abisola Idu, MS, MPH
“I apply well-established and innovative statistical methods to clinical and public health research. My objective is to support, challenge, or capture new findings that influence decisions that can improve health and health care, worldwide."
Abisola Idu, MS, MPH
Collaborative Biostatistician I, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Abisola.Idu@kp.org
206-287-2893
Biography
Biostatistician Abisola Idu, MS, MPH, is interested in research that investigates the effectiveness and efficacy of treatment in pharmacoepidemiologic studies. She has a broad range of interest in research with a strong motivation to investigate the health challenges of malaria, obesity, cancer, heart disease, and maternal health.
Ms. Idu began her contributions to clinical and public health research through her academic training at the University of Texas Health Science Center, School of Public Health. She further got rigorous research experience by being a part of the leukemia, lymphoma, and cancer prevention research team at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in 2015. She has been a biostatistician at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute's Biostatistics Unit since 2018.
Ms. Idu looks forward to using her expertise in application of epidemiological principles and surveillance methodologies at KPWHRI. She has an in-depth knowledge of the ICH-GCP, FDA, IRB policies, regulations, and guidelines and plans to use her skills and background to implement epidemiologic study designs in clinical research studies.
Research interests and experience
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Cancer
Efficacy and safety of therapies; association between genetic variability and survival outcomes
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Obesity
Role of nutritional, psychological and lifestyle factors; obesity prevention and control
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Heart Disease
Role of aging, nutritional and lifestyle factors; Intervention strategies for prevention and disease control
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Maternal Health
Association between social, behavioral and clinical factors and maternal and infant outcomes
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Malaria
Malaria prevention and control; development of vaccines; availability and accessibility to malaria treatment
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Women's Health
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Mental Health
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Biostatistics
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Social Determinants of Health
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Vaccines & Infectious Diseases
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Cardiovascular Health
Recent publications
Penfold RB, Thompson EE, Hilt RJ, Kelleher KJ, Schwartz N, Beck A, Clarke G, Ralston JD, Hartzler AL, Coley RY, Akosile M, Vitiello B, Simon GE. Safer Use of Antipsychotics in Youth (SUAY) pragmatic trial protocol. Contemp Clin Trials. 2020 Dec;99:106184. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2020.106184. Epub 2020 Oct 20. PubMed
Tasker E, Roman MG, Akosile M, Mayes C, Hughes S, LaRue B. Efficacy of "touch" DNA recovery and room-temperature storage from assault rifle magazines. Leg Med (Tokyo). 2020 Jan 9;43:101658. doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2019.101658. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed
Chen L, Shortreed SM, Easterling T, Cheetham TC, Reynolds K, Avalos LA, Kamineni A, Holt V, Neugebauer R, Akosile M, Nance N, Bider-Canfield Z, Walker RL, Badon SE, Dublin S. Identifying hypertension in pregnancy using electronic medical records: the importance of blood pressure values. Pregnancy Hypertens. 2020 Jan;19:112-118. doi: 10.1016/j.preghy.2020.01.001. Epub 2020 Jan 3. PubMed
Akosile M, Pierce S, Brandt M, Verstovsek S, Borthakur G, Kantarjian H, Ravandi F, Wierda W, Garcia-Manero G, Daver N, Kadia T, Burger JA, Pemmaraju N, Jabbour E, Cortes J. Survival impact of patients (pts) with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) due to failure from the use of one or more tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI). Blood, 126(23), 1587. Accessed December 11, 2017. Retrieved from http://www.bloodjournal.org/content/126/23/1587.
Boddu P, Garcia-Manero G, Ravandi F, Borthakur G, Jabbour E, DiNardo C, Jain N, Daver N, Pemmaraju N, Anderlini P, Parmar S, Kc D, Akosile M, Pierce SA, Champlin R, Cortes J, Kantarjian H, Kadia T. Clinical outcomes in adult patients with aplastic anemia: a single institution experience Am J Hematol. 2017 Dec;92(12):1295-1302. doi: 10.1002/ajh.24897. Epub 2017 Sep 25. PubMed
Yu L, Tu M, Cortes J, Xu-Monette ZY, Miranda RN, Zhang J, Orlowski RZ, Neelapu S, Boddu PC, Akosile MA, Uldrick TS, Yarchoan R, Medeiros LJ, Li Y, Fajgenbaum DC, Young KH. Clinical and pathological characteristics of HIV- and HHV-8-negative Castleman disease. Blood. 2017 Mar 23;129(12):1658-1668. doi: 10.1182/blood-2016-11-748855. Epub 2017 Jan 18. PubMed
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Research
Increasing opioid use disorder treatment in primary care
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Research
Dementia risk screening tool shows promise
In a new study, a tool to help discover undiagnosed dementia performed well in 2 separate health systems.
Research
New findings on treating hypertension in pregnancy
A study led by Dr. Sascha Dublin finds similar outcomes for 3 hypertension medications, filling an evidence gap.
COVID-19
Greater infection risks linked to COVID-19 disparities
New work by Susan Shortreed, PhD, finds infection risks drive worse outcomes for some racial and ethnic groups.
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