Oluwayemisi (Yemisi) Ajumobi is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center.

Ajumobi focuses on the adoption of NextGen sequencing technologies to enhance global health security. She advises on biosecurity, climate change, and emerging biotechnology policy solutions to enable the utilization and scale up of metagenomics enabled early warning tools; improving pathogen genomics data sharing and governance arrangements; and the use of geospatial intelligence for environmental monitoring and early warning of environmentally driven emerging biological threats, including antimicrobial resistant pathogens, to mitigate potential societal and geopolitical risks. She is working on building strong coalitions across developing and developed economies and adopting multisectoral solutions to enhance global health security and has over thirteen years of experience in global health security and development.

Previously, she worked with the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition, and Population Global Practice, where she provided technical, operational, and policy advice to national governments on enhancing the health security capacities of countries across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, as well as on strengthening the resilience of country health systems to effectively address public health emergencies.

Ajumobi is completing a doctorate in environmental health and health security at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH). She holds a Master of Public Health in epidemiology and global health from Columbia University; a Master of Science in human resources design (human resources for health and health administration) from Claremont Graduate University; and a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry from the University of Lagos. She is an alumna of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative Fellowship and a graduate of the Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute at BSPH.