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Ofole Mgbako
Ofole Mgbako, MD, MS
NYU Langone Health, Departments of Medicine and Population Health - Assistant Professor
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, Division of Infectious Diseases - Section Chief
NYU Institute for Excellence in Health Equity - Clinical Pillar Lead
Email: Ofole.Mgbako@nyulangone.org
Education
MS, Epidemiology, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
BA, History and Literature, Harvard College
Research Interests
HIV, stigma, adherence, viral suppression, racial minorities, gender minorities, MSM, health equity, health disparities
BIO
Ofole Mgbako is an assistant professor of Medicine and Population Health at NYU Langone Health, Section Chief of Infectious Diseases at Bellevue Hospital and Co-Clinical Pillar Lead of the NYU Institute for Excellence in Health Equity. Prior to medical school, he worked for the Center for Urban Epidemiological Studies at the New York Academy of Medicine, the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), and worked on various HIV-related global health projects in Ghana, Jamaica and South Africa. During residency training at NYU Langone, he was part of the Dr. Dustin Duncan’s Spatial Epidemiology Lab. Dr. Mgbako completed his infectious diseases fellowship at Columbia University and a postdoctoral research fellowship at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies. Dr. Mgbako’s research focuses on biobehavioral interventions and outcomes for racial, gender and sexual minorities along the HIV care continuum. He is interested in the impact of interventions such as immediate antiretroviral therapy (iART) and novel technologies on retention in care, ART adherence and viral load suppression among marginalized populations. Dr. Mgbako is also interested in how trauma, intersectional stigma, structural racism and homophobia impact HIV-related outcomes.
Projects
Principal Investigator, Exploring Intraethnic Differences in Healthcare-Related Experiences among Men Who Have Sex with Men in New York City. Completed
Principal Investigator, Mixed Methods Study to Understand Sociostructural Predictors of Severe Mpox Outcomes, Intersectional Stigma, and Substance Use Among Patients with Co-Morbid HIV in NYC. Completed
Principal Investigator, Rapid ART and HIV Care Engagement Among Young Black and Latinx Sexual and Gender Minorities with HIV: A Mixed Methods Study. Completed
Publications

Recent

Mgbako O, Kaplan-Lewis E, Casey E, Mishra M, Goldfarb E, Moore B, Kapadia F, Khan M, Lim S, Felder J, Ratcliffe J, Tillery EH, Duke S, Morales Correa GA, Goldberg-Hall E, Pitts R (2026).
Barriers and facilitators to equitable implementation of long-acting injectable PrEP for racial, gender and sexual minority populations in NYC: The EquiPrEP study
AIDS and Behavior [Epub 2026 Sep 24]. doi: 10.1007/s10461-026-05304-1.

Mgbako O (2026).
Honoring the legacy of the HIV epidemic
New England Journal of Medicine, 395 (11), 1048-1049. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2601860.

Leocadio C, Garcia E, Lash M, Berardi J..., Mgbako O, ...Wong M (2026).
Clinical outcomes of mpox disease in patients treated with tecovirimat
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 82 (4), 720-726. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaf520.

Mgbako O, Gonzalez CM, Olagun-Samuel C, Torres C, Richardson S, Williams R, Greene RE, Ortiz R (2025).
A just appraisal: Co-creating a new health equity framework with learners through journal club to evaluate the literature
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 40 (11), 3566-3571. doi: 10.1007/s11606-025-09774-2. PMCID: PMC12612348.

Mgbako O, Castellano C, Jano K, Piccolo AL, DiLorenzo MA, Knutsen D, Shah Y, Pressley JC, Duncan DT, Felder J, Mazo D (2025).
Health insurance status and severe mpox disease outcomes among sexual minority men in NYC: A retrospective cohort study
BMC Medicine, 23 (1), 418. doi: 10.1186/s12916-025-04252-2. PMCID: PMC12239370.


Notable

Mgbako O, Park SH, Mayer KH, Schneider JA, Goedel WC, Hambrick HR, Duncan DT (2019).
Transactional sex and preferences for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) administration modalities among men who have sex with men (MSM)
Journal of Sex Research, 56 (4-5), 650-658. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2018.1449190. PMCID: PMC6179954.

Dr. Mgbako's Google Scholar Profile
Selected Press