Principal Investigator 
Dr. Adebowale “Debo” Awosika-Olumo received
a medical doctorate degree from Nigeria, MS degree in occupational and
environmental health from England, and an MPH in public health administration
from Northwest Ohio Consortium for Public Health, Medical College of
Ohio, Toledo.
Dr. Awosika-Olumo is currently the Bureau Chief
in the Bureau of Epidemiology, Office of Surveillance and Public Health
Preparedness, HDHHS. He has managed and analyzed Houston’s
Adult/Adolescent Spectrum of HIV Disease (ASD) project and has also been
active in analyzing data from Houston’s Supplement to HIV/AIDS
Surveillance (SHAS) project. He has an extensive research background
that includes over 20 years of pre-and post-medical doctorate research,
and public health experiences in Nigeria, England and United States respectively. He
has authored and co-authored many scientific papers in internationally
acclaimed peer-review journals some of which are in the area of HIV/AIDS. Prior
to coming to Houston in 2003, he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor of
Public Health at Bowling Green State University, Ohio and Indiana Wesleyan
University, Cleveland, Ohio site.