Gbenga Ogedegbe

Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MPH is an endowed Professor of Medicine and Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where he serves as director of Division of Health & Behavior in the Department of Population Health. Ogedegbe is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the United States Prevention Services Task Force. He is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, American College of Physicians, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine.

Residents look from behind a closed gate as members of the military patrol during a nationwide lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of novel coronavirus—in Soweto, South Africa on April 23, 2020. The photo shows several people congregated behind a closed fence though there is a very large gap between the fence and the adjacent wall. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Poverty

One Size Doesn’t Fit All

by Rumi Chunara, Rajesh Vedanthan, Olatunji Matthew Kolawole, Gbenga Ogedegbe

When collecting COVID-19 data and modeling epidemic curves, we need to take more into account—in Africa and elsewhere