Bolaji Aregbeshola

Bolaji Aregbeshola

School of Public Health

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Bolaji S. Aregbeshola, PhD, is a public health researcher and behavioural scientist in the School of Public Health at Adelaide University. He received a PhD in Public Health & Behavioural Sciences from the University of Newcastle in 2025 after completing a doctoral thesis titled “Influence of Vocational Training and Workplace Environment on Tobacco Use, Alcohol Consumption, and Concurrent Use.”
 
Dr. Aregbeshola conducts research to identify causes and consequences of public health issues and works to design, implement, and evaluate effective and cost-effective interventions and policies targeting the complex interplay of factors as well as health risk behaviours for chronic diseases among priority populations. His research focuses on health behaviour, tobacco control, alcohol control, chronic disease prevention, infectious disease control and prevention, health policy, health care financing, health insurance, health systems, health economics, health management, access to care, quality of health care, maternal and child health, impact evaluation, program and policy evaluation, economic evaluation, mixed methods, randomised controlled trials, and evidence synthesis, including systematic reviews, scoping reviews, and meta-analyses.
 
Dr. Aregbeshola was a University of Newcastle PhD scholar. He is affiliated with the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) in Newcastle, New South Wales, and the Health Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) at the University of York, United Kingdom. He is currently serving on the editorial board of World Medical & Health Policy. His work has been published in the European Journal of Health Economics, PharmacoEconomics, the International Journal of Health Policy and Management, World Medical & Health Policy, Frontiers in Public Health, Frontiers in Health Services, the Journal of Public Health, Ageing International, and the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, among others.

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2025 Aregbeshola, B. S., Paul, C., Atorkey, P., Dizon, J., Leigh, L., & Tzelepis, F. (2025). Factors associated with tobacco use, risky alcohol consumption, and concurrent tobacco and risky alcohol use among vocational education students. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 1-11.
    DOI
    2024 Aregbeshola, B. S., & Khan, S. M. (2024). Determinants of Out-of-pocket Health Expenditure Among Older Adults: Evidence From the Nigeria Living Standards Survey 2018–19. Ageing International, 49(2), 450-466.
    DOI Scopus2 WoS1
    2023 Aregbeshola, B. S., & Khan, S. M. (2023). Barriers to enrollment in National Health Insurance Scheme among informal sector workers in Nigeria. World Medical and Health Policy, 15(1), 36-52.
    DOI Scopus1 WoS1
    2023 Keramat, S. A., Hashmi, R., Aregbeshola, B. S., & Comans, T. (2023). Informal Caregiving Provision for Disabled or Elderly in the Families and Work Productivity: Evidence from 11 Waves of an Australian Population-Based Cohort. PharmacoEconomics, 41(9), 1117-1136.
    DOI Scopus7 WoS7 Europe PMC6
    2022 Aregbeshola, B. S., & Olaniyan, O. (2022). Horizontal Inequity in the Utilization of Maternal and Reproductive Health Services: Evidence From the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey. Frontiers in Health Services, 2, 10 pages.
    DOI Scopus3 WoS1 Europe PMC3
    2022 Aregbeshola, B. S., & Folayan, M. O. (2022). Nigeria's financing of health care during the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and recommendations. World Medical and Health Policy, 14(1), 195-204.
    DOI Scopus19 WoS16 Europe PMC11
    2021 Aregbeshola, B. S., & Khan, S. M. (2021). Out-of-pocket health-care spending and its determinants among households in Nigeria: a national study. Journal of Public Health Germany, 29(4), 931-942.
    DOI Scopus23 WoS21
    2019 Aregbeshola, B. S., & Khan, S. M. (2019). Factors associated with non-utilization of maternal and child health services in Nigeria: results from the 2013 Nigeria demographic and health survey. Journal of Public Health Germany, 27(3), 357-365.
    DOI Scopus9 WoS9
    2018 Aregbeshola, B. S., & Khan, S. M. (2018). Predictors of enrolment in the national health insurance scheme among women of reproductive age in nigeria. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 7(11), 1015-1023.
    DOI Scopus49 WoS42 Europe PMC36
    2018 Aregbeshola, B. S., & Khan, S. M. (2018). Out-of-pocket payments, catastrophic health expenditure and poverty among households in Nigeria 2010. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 7(9), 798-806.
    DOI Scopus165 WoS152 Europe PMC124
    2018 Aregbeshola, B. S., & Khan, S. M. (2018). Factors affecting the uptake of malaria prevention strategies among pregnant women in Nigeria: evidence from 2013 Nigeria demographic and health survey. Journal of Public Health Germany, 26(4), 399-408.
    DOI Scopus4 WoS6
    2018 Aregbeshola, B. S., & Khan, S. M. (2018). Determinants of catastrophic health expenditure in Nigeria. European Journal of Health Economics, 19(4), 521-532.
    DOI Scopus59 WoS48 Europe PMC36
    2018 Samson Aregbeshola, B., & Mohsin Khan, S. (2018). The Relationship between Health Facility-based Delivery and Child Mortality in Nigeria: Insights from 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey. American Journal of Public Health Research, 6(1), 4-10.
    DOI
    2018 Aregbeshola, B. S. (2018). A Tax-based, noncontributory, health-financing system can accelerate progress toward universal health coverage in Nigeria. Medicc Review, 20(4), 40-45.
    DOI Scopus10 Europe PMC5
    2017 Aregbeshola, B. S., & Khan, S. M. (2017). Determinants Of Impoverishment Due To Out Of Pocket Payments In Nigeria. Journal of Ayub Medical College Abbottabad JAMC, 29(2), 194-199.
    Scopus9 Europe PMC8
    2017 Aregbeshola, B. S. (2017). Enhancing political will for universal health coverage in Nigeria. Medicc Review, 19(1), 42-46.
    DOI Scopus19 WoS12 Europe PMC10
    2017 Aregbeshola, B. S., & Khan, S. M. (2017). Primary health care in Nigeria: 24 years after Olikoye Ransome-Kuti's leadership. Frontiers in Public Health, 5(MAR), 2 pages.
    DOI Scopus49 WoS36 Europe PMC27
    2016 Aregbeshola, B. S. (2016). Public health crisis and local health security in Nigeria. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 16(11), 1224-1225.
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    2016 Aregbeshola, B. S. (2016). Institutional corruption, health-sector reforms, and health status in Nigeria. Lancet, 388(10046), 757.
    DOI Scopus5 WoS6 Europe PMC4
    2016 Aregbeshola, B. S. (2016). Out-of-pocket payments in Nigeria. Lancet, 387(10037), 2506.
    DOI Scopus28 WoS29 Europe PMC22
    - Aregbeshola, B. S., & Khan, S. M. (2017). Impact of health facilities on malaria control interventions among children under five years of age and pregnant women in Nigeria. South East Asia Journal of Public Health, 7(1), 35-41.
    DOI
    - Aregbeshola, B. S., Onigbogi, O. O., & Khan, S. M. (1970). CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES TO ACCESS HEALTH CARE IN URBAN SLUMS OF LAGOS-STATE IN NIGERIA. Pakistan Journal of Public Health, 7(1), 11-18.
    DOI
    - Aregbeshola, B. S., Onifade, O. M., & Awuviry-Newton, K. (2021). Prevalence and correlates of anaemia among children aged 6 to 59 months in Nigeria. World Nutrition, 12(3), 58-74.
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  • Preprint
    Year Citation
    2025 Aregbeshola, B. S., Salmasi, L., & Shomali, K. W. A. (2025). The Relationship between Poverty and Children's Nutritional Status: Evidence from Nigeria.
    - Aregbeshola, B. S. (n.d.). Towards Health System Strengthening: A Review of the Nigerian Health System From 1960 to 2019.
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