
Aderonke Akinkugbe, PhD, MPH
Ronke Akinkugbe (Preferred Name)
About Me
Aderonke (Ronke) Akinkugbe, BDS, MPH, PhD, a public health dentist and chronic disease epidemiologist, is Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is a member of the Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research and its NIEHS-funded Center on Health and Environment Across the LifeSpan (HEALS).
Dr. Akinkugbe’s research broadly examines how environmental factors affect oral diseases as well as modifiable risk factors to improve population health outcomes. More specifically, she explores psychosocial and environmental determinants of poor oral and systemic health outcomes across the lifecourse, including the role of prenatal exposures on children's oral health. This approach recognizes how certain components of the exposome, or the totality of environmental exposures from conception onward impact health.
She previously held positions at the Virginia Commonwealth University before joining Icahn Mount Sinai and was named among Icahn’s BioMedical Laureates in 2022. Dr. Akinkugbe has received several awards for her work, and she is on editorial boards of several journals, including the Journal of the American Dental Association. She has a PhD in Epidemiology from the Gillings School of Global Public Health of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed her dental public health residency at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. She holds a BDS in Dental Surgery from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and an MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University.
Language
English
Position
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Environmental Medicine
Publications
Selected Publications
- Associations among positive child health measures in the environmental influences on child health outcomes (ECHO) cohort. Genevieve L. Taylor, Mohamad Burjak, Debashree Ray, Courtney K. Blackwell, Hudson P. Santos, Jody Ganiban, Anne L. Dunlop, Amy J. Elliott, Judy L. Aschner, Annemarie Stroustrup, Traci A. Bekelman, Charles Barone, Carlos A. Camargo, Cindy T. McEvoy, Irene Tung, Julie B. Schweitzer, Julie Herbstman, Robert O. Wright, Rosalind J. Wright, Aderonke A. Akinkugbe, Rachel S. Kelly, Tina V. Hartert, Barron L. Patterson, Casper Bendixsen, Andrea E. Cassidy-Bushrow, T. Michael O’Shea, Rebecca C. Fry, collaborators for Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes program collaborators for Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes. Quality of Life Research
- Long-Term Oral Health Effects of Traumatic Events Among World Trade Center Health Registry Enrolees, 2003–2020. Aderonke A. Akinkugbe, Vishal Midya, Michael A. Crane, Dina T. Garcia, Uraina S. Clark, Rosalind J. Wright. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
- Maternal Psychological Well-Being and Caries Experience in 3-Year-Old Offspring: Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) Study. Wen Cheng, Chin Ying Stephen Hsu, Carolina Un Lam, Johan Gunnar Eriksson, Helen Chen, Shiao Yng Chan, Yung Seng Lee, Mary Foong Fong Chong, Kok Hian Tan, Michael Meaney, Yap Seng Chong, Rosalind J. Wright, Aderonke A. Akinkugbe. Caries Research