Aderonke Akinkugbe

Aderonke Akinkugbe (Preferred Name: Ronke Akinkugbe) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is a public health dentist and chronic disease epidemiologist with a focus on environmental and psychosocial determinants of oral and systemic health outcomes across the lifespan. Her work includes studying prenatal exposures' impact on children's oral health and is affiliated with the Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research and its NIEHS-funded Center on Health and Environment Across the LifeSpan (HEALS).

Education:

• PhD in Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
• BDS in Dental Surgery, University of Lagos, Nigeria

Her research emphasizes environmental medicine, exposome studies, and population health, with a particular interest in maternal-child health and traumatic events' long-term oral health effects. Dr. Akinkugbe has received institutional recognition as an Icahn BioMedical Laureate and serves on editorial boards of key journals. She has also held positions at Virginia Commonwealth University prior to joining Mount Sinai.