Dr. Akpa’s research activities focus mainly on statistical modeling and application of statistical methods to health-related outcomes. He developed and used both staged and dynamical models to investigate the transmission dynamics of HIV/AIDS in the General population of Nigeria. His works in this area were among the first efforts in modelling HIV transmission in Nigeria and he was the first to use and publish Statistical/Mathematical models for describing HIV trajectory and dynamics in Nigeria. During his Postdoctoral fellowship with the CHAIR group of the H3Africa, he harmonised data for >50,000 participants across 6 NIH funded studies, recruiting participants in 13 African countries; developed and led the largest and the first cross-study research in H3Africaa using the harmonized dataset. Dr. Akpa is a well collaborated Biostatistician within and outside of the College of medicine, University of Ibadan. He is an investigator on a number of NIH funded grants including the Stroke Investigative Research and Education Network (SIREN), the SIBS genomic study and the Eyes of Africa: The genetics of blindness.