About me
Dr. Kana completed the first phase of his APTI fellowship at the National Institute of Environmental Science (NIEHS), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, under the mentorship of Stephanie London, MD, PhD.
He is a Professor of Perinatal and Paediatric Epidemiology at Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria. He is also the African Chapter Councilor of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. He earned a medical degree from the University of Jos, a Master of Public Health from Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, Nigeria, and a PhD from the University of Porto, Portugal. Dr. Kana completed the residency program in Public Health of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, and the postdoctoral training in environmental and molecular epidemiology at the United States National Institutes of Health. Dr. Kana is currently the Principal Investigator of the Kaduna Infant Development Birth Cohort Study. He is co-leading a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative-funded project to generate and characterize a comprehensive and validated cell atlas of healthy placenta cells of Nigerian women using single-cell analysis. He was the principal investigator for the Nigerian component of studies to evaluate the coverage and effectiveness of the Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention project, executed across five West African countries. The findings of this small-scale intervention program have been influential and led to additional funding expanding the intervention, now targeting over 12 million children in Nigeria.