DrGlory Atilola

Glory is an Environmental Epidemiologist and Statistician at the School of Public Health. He has been working on multiple projects investigating the link between aircraft noise exposure and multiple health outcomes, including cadiovascular diseases, metabolic diseases, cardiometabolic biomarkers and sleep disturbance, as part of a multidisciplinary team within the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

Research Interest

His research interest lies at the interface of environmental health, exposure science, spatiotemporal statistics, statistical science, molecular epidemiology and public policy.

Additional interests in low and middle income countries include: small area estimation for official statistics, genomic epidemiology, multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis and HIV, neglected tropical diseases and female genital mutilation.

Education

He obtained a PhD in Statistics at Northumbria University at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, an MSc in Epidemiology at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and a BSc in Microbiology at Redeemers University, Nigeria. He seeks opportunities to generate contextual and policy-driven evidence base for overall improvement in population health and wellbeing. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

Teaching and Mentoring experience

Glory has been involved in teaching, training and mentoring of early career researchers in the art and science of biomedical research, health data science, genomics, environmental epidemiology, research design, statistical analysis and interpretation of research outputs. He has also contributed to postgraduate teaching, project assessment, personal tutoring and other related activities within Imperial School of Public Health.