Seun Aluko, MPH, CIC

Seun Aluko, MPH, is Director of the Population Health Innovation Lab (PHIL), a program of the Public Health Institute. He leads PHIL’s strategic direction and partnerships, and oversees a portfolio of community-driven initiatives across California spanning behavioral health, chronic disease and substance use prevention, Medi-Cal delivery system implementation and the social drivers of health.

Seun joined PHIL in 2022 and has held roles of increasing responsibility, most recently as Director of Applied Research and Implementation. In those roles he built PHIL’s applied research and evaluation function, directed multidisciplinary projects on program evaluation, outbreak response and vaccine safety, and established the data infrastructure supporting PHIL’s multi-funder portfolio. As an Epidemiologist with PHI, he supported California’s COVID-19 response through data pipeline development and wastewater surveillance integration.

At the California Department of Public Health, Seun designed and led statewide surveillance and response programs, building the data systems and local health jurisdiction partnerships that expanded access to testing, vaccination and treatment for the populations carrying the greatest burden.

Before joining PHI, he led health outcomes research across 27 countries evaluating child health, nutrition and development programs. He began his career in applied epidemiology at the University of Illinois and in laboratory-based research at Michigan State University.

Seun’s practice brings together implementation science, applied research and evaluation and applied epidemiology, with partnership as the foundation of the work. He focuses on generating evidence that communities, health systems and policymakers can act on.