He specialises in the implementation of health research in resource-limited countries, including programmes in vaccinology and antimicrobial resistance.
[2][1] In 2014 Alobo was selected as a Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow, and moved to the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.
[4] Alobo joined the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 2018 as a Global Health Leadership fellow.
[5] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Alobo was appointed as Head of the African Academy of Sciences' response to coronavirus disease.
[8][9][10] He worked with the World Health Organization to survey African researchers and physicians to better identify their priorities in fighting coronavirus disease, and found that the majority of respondents wanted help with clinical management, infection prevention and epidemiological studies into transmission dynamics.