Oni worked in
South Africa, where she established an interdisciplinary program
Research Initiative for Cities Health and Equity (RICHE) at the
University of Cape Town in 2007. RICHE works on urban health, identifying opportunities to implement
public health policies in fast growing cities. She worked as a registrar in the
Western Cape Department of Health. She became interested in interventions that can manage chronic infections and
non-communicable diseases. Oni was made a senior lecturer at the
University of Cape Town. The course created by Oni is one of the first to teach
global health from the perspective of the
Global South. Here she is a member of the Global Diet and Activity Research Group and Network (GDAR) network, which works to prevent
non-communicable diseases in
low-income countries. == Public engagement and policy ==