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SCOPE

Schistosomiasis Control from a One Health Perspective
Ogun State, Nigeria

The mentors, field workers, and health officials working with HIYH to fight snail fever on the Oyan River.

Our mentors
Tope Olubodun
Tope Olubodun
Regulatory & ethics lead · Consultant public health physician
Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta

A physician at the Federal Medical Centre in Abeokuta, Tope leads regulatory approval and research ethics for the SCOPE study — the groundwork that lets the science move responsibly, in step with the communities it serves.

Dr. Soneye Islamiat
Dr. Soneye Islamiat
Schistosomiasis control lead, Ogun State
Ogun State Ministry of Health

Ogun State's schistosomiasis control lead at the Ministry of Health. Dr. Soneye opened the door to the Oyan River communities, coordinates mobile care and community health extension workers, and pointed the team to the villages where the work matters most.

Dr. Uwem Ekpo
Dr. Uwem Ekpo
Professor of Parasitology & Epidemiology
FUNAAB — “Prof”

A parasitologist at FUNAAB, “Prof” brings twenty years of schistosomiasis-control experience on the Oyan River. He pulled up a chair on day one — and the study has been anchored by his fieldcraft ever since.

Collaborators & researchers
Olubukola Adelakun
Olubukola Adelakun
Spatial epidemiology · drone mapping
FUNAAB

Maps snail-host habitat by drone and taught the team to read the river — pointing out the Bulinus and Biomphalaria that carry the parasite.

Ifeoluwa George
Ifeoluwa George
Lead field technician
Field microscopy & sample reading

Runs field microscopy and reads samples at the screening table, where the diagnostics meet the community.

Manu Prakash
Manu Prakash
Research mentor · Foldscope co-inventor
Prakash Lab, Stanford

Co-inventor of the $1 Foldscope and our research mentor in frugal science; he hosts the team in the Prakash Lab.

Giulio De Leo
Giulio De Leo
Disease ecologist · Professor of Oceans & Earth System Science
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

A disease ecologist who studies the transmission ecology of schistosomiasis — how the parasite moves between people, snails, and water, and where the cycle can be broken. He co-founded Stanford's Disease Ecology in a Changing World initiative.

Dr. Kayla Kauffman
Dr. Kayla Kauffman
Postdoctoral scholar · One Health & disease ecology
De Leo Lab, Stanford

A disease ecologist working on aquaculture that fights schistosomiasis while farming food — fish that eat the snails that carry the disease — alongside modeling of transmission risk and control strategies.

Contributors & with thanks
Maryam Kafil-Emiola NTD team lead, Ogun State
Dr. Festus Soyinka Director of Public Health, Ogun State
Dr. Dola Research mentor, Abeokuta
Dr. Adeniyi Research mentor, Abeokuta
Daniel Amao Cinematographer, Lagos
Henry Ezeokeke Artist · learning puzzle
Oluwanifemi Field coordination
Janani Ramesh Needs research · Project Prana
Anesta Kothari Prakash Lab
Sabona Simbassa Filtration · Dr. Lee's Lab
In partnership with
Prakash Lab
Stanford University
Center for Human & Planetary Health
Stanford
FUNAAB
Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
Federal Medical Centre
Abeokuta
Ogun State Ministry of Health
Nigeria
Project Prana
Foundation
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