About me
Tolu(llah) Oni is Clinical Professor of Global Public Health and Sustainable Development at the
University Cambridge and Founder & CEO of UrbanBetter. She is an Extraordinary Professor in
Architecture at University of Pretoria and Honorary Professor in Public Health, University of Cape
Town.
A Public Health Physician and urban epidemiologist, her work supports a coordinated approach
between science, policy and societal role players, identifying creative and long-term strategies to
address complex urban population and planetary health challenges in rapidly growing cities.
She has served as scientific adviser for several organisations including International Society for Urban
Health, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Planetary health board and the World Obesity
Federation. She is an editorial board member of PLOS Global Public Health, Lancet Planetary Health,
Cities and Health, and the Journal of Urban Health.
In recognition of her work, she has been profiled in the Lancet journal, Science magazine, and the
British Medical Journal, and is a Fellow of the International Science Council, African Academy of
Sciences, Next Einstein Forum Fellow and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
