Prof. Agbaje MD, MPH, PhD, FESC, FACC, FAHA, FNYAM is an award-winning physician and Professor (associate) of Clinical Epidemiology and Child Health who investigates causal relationships of aerobic fitness, physical activity, sedentary behaviour, body composition, insulin resistance, dyslipidaemia, and metabolic syndrome with arterial, cardiac, liver, and kidney structure and function from childhood through young adulthood.
His research received over 2,500 media mentions in 2022-2024 in outlets such as BBC, CNN, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Mirror, BILD, Yahoo, MSN, etc with a media reach of >5.5 billion impressions. He was interviewed LIVE on BBC World News TV on 14.03.24.
He is the PI of urFIT-child research group at the University of Eastern Finland, an Associate Editor at JCSM, and serves on the editorial board of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology (ATVB). He has first-author papers in JACC & Nature Communications.