Applied mathematician, Adeshina Adekunle, joined AITHM in 2017 to develop infectious disease models that can estimate the extent and spread of disease outbreaks, from influenza to Ebola virus.

Adeshina, a post-doctoral research fellow and infectious diseases modeller, is funded by a Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Tropical Partners research grant. He is currently working with colleagues to create a Global Pandemic Map website to monitor external disease threats.

Closer to home, he is developing a model to calculate the spread of Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, currently a key tool in efforts to prevent the dengue-carrying species from reproducing.

Adeshina is also involved in research to help differentiate treated tuberculosis patients who subsequently suffer a relapse, from those who have been re-infected, and whether prior infection creates greater immunity.

Born and raised in Nigeria, Adeshina obtained a Bachelor of Technology in Industrial Mathematics (1st Class Honours), followed by a Masters degree, from the Federal University of Technology, in Akure, before moving to Australia in 2013 to embark on a PhD in Mathematical Biology at the University of New South Wales.

His PhD study explored the dynamics of malarial infection using mathematical modelling; identifying and calculating factors that influenced infection resistance in two patient cohorts – one in Mali, where the malaria strain, Plasmodium falciparum, is common, and the other in Thailand and Papua New Guineas, where the Plasmodium vivax strain is common.

Adeshina found the incidence of Plasmodium falciparum-related infection and onset of clinical symptoms decreased with age, and that patients infected with the parasite before the malaria season (during and immediately after the wet season) were less likely to develop clinical malaria. He also calculated that some 90-95 percent of malaria cases in regions afflicted by Plasmodium vivax were caused by reactivation of hypnozoites – a dormant form of the parasite in the human body.

Research Disciplines

• Epidemiology (4202)
• Applied mathematics (4901)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Public health (2004)

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Journal Articles

• Ogunlade S, Meehan M, Adekunle A and McBryde E (2023) A Systematic Review of Mathematical Models of Dengue Transmission and Vector Control: 2010–2020. Viruses, 15 (1).
• Kuddus M, McBryde E, Adekunle A, White L and Meehan M (2022) Mathematical analysis of a two-strain tuberculosis model in Bangladesh. Scientific Reports, 12.
• Kuddus M, McBryde E, Adekunle A and Meehan M (2022) Analysis and simulation of a two-strain disease model with nonlinear incidence. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 155.
• Ogunlade S, Adekunle A, McBryde E and Meehan M (2022) Modelling the ecological dynamics of mosquito populations with multiple co-circulating Wolbachia strains. Scientific Reports, 12.
• Stadler E, Cromer D, Mehra S, Adekunle A, Flegg J, Anstey N, Watson J, Chu C, Mueller I, Robinson L, Schlub T, Davenport M and Khoury D (2022) Population heterogeneity in Plasmodium vivax relapse risk. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 16 (12).
• Adegboye O, Adekunle A, Pak A, Gayawan E, Leung D, Rojas D, Elfaki F, McBryde E and Eisen D (2021) Change in outbreak epicentre and its impact on the importation risks of COVID-19 progression: a modelling study. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 40.
• Adeoye O, Islam S and Adekunle A (2021) Optimal capital structure and the debtholder-manager conflicts of interests: a management decision model. Journal of Modelling in Management, 16 (4). pp. 1070-1095
• Kuddus M, McBryde E, Adekunle A, White L and Meehan M (2021) Mathematical analysis of a two-strain disease model with amplification. Chaos Solitons and Fractals, 143.
• McBryde E, Meehan M, Caldwell J, Adekunle A, Ogunlade S, Kuddus M, Ragonnet R, Jayasundara P, Trauer J and Cope R (2021) Modelling direct and herd protection effects of vaccination against the SARS?CoV?2 Delta variant in Australia. Medical Journal of Australia, 215 (9). pp. 427-432
• Ogunlade S, Meehan M, Adekunle A, Rojas Alvarez D, Adegboye O and McBryde E (2021) A review: Aedes-borne arboviral infections, controls and Wolbachia-based strategies. Vaccines, 9 (1).
• Adegboye O, Adekunle A and Gayawan E (2020) Early transmission dynamics of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Nigeria. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17 (9).

Book Chapters

• Gayawan E, Adekunle A, Pak A and Adegboye O (2022) Statistical Approaches to Infectious Diseases Modelling in Developing Countries: A Case of COVID-19. In: Promoting Statistical Practice and Collaboration in Developing Countries. CRC Press, Abingdon, England, pp. 557-581

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 28+ research outputs authored by Dr Adeshina Adekunle from 2013 onwards.

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Current

• Modelling Dengue transmission: forecast models, mapping and simulations to estimate the impact of public health interventions on global Dengue burden (PhD , External Advisor)
• Modeling the potential of introducing different Wolbachia?infected mosquitoes to control Aedes-borne arboviral infections (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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