Olaoluwa Akinwale is the Deputy Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) and Director of Neglected Tropical Disease Research at the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology at NIMR. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Debrecen, Hungary; Lead City University, Nigeria; Taipei Medical University, Taiwan and Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminths, and Buruli ulcer