The Vice-Chancellor, Professor K.O. Adebowale, FAS, mni, cordially invites you to the 581st Inaugural Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Kayode O. Osungbade of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan (CoMUI).
TITLE: ART AND SCIENCE OF MOLECULES OF HEALTH PRODUCTION: THE EXPLOITS OF A PRODUCER
DATE: THURSDAY, 22ND MAY, 2025
TIME: 3:00 P.M. West Central Africa
VENUE: TRENCHARD HALL, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN
TO BE DELIVERED BY: PROFESSOR KAYODE O. OSUNGBADE
Thank you
Prof. Temidayo Ogundiran FAS
Provost
PROFESSOR KAYODE O. OSUNGBADE BIODATA
Professor Kayode Omoniyi OSUNGBADE was born on Saturday, 8th June, 1963 to the family of Mr. Francis Bamidele and Mrs. Marian Oladejo OSUNGBADE, both of blessed memory. He attended the Ibadan City Council (ICC) Primary School, Molete, Ibadan, from 1970 to 1975 and Methodist High School, Ibadan for his secondary education from 1975 to 1980. He enrolled in the Higher School Certificate (HSC) programme at the Government College, Ibadan, from 1980 to 1981 and was the best student of the year in physics and chemistry.
Professor Osungbade gained admission into the University of Ibadan, Ibadan in 1981 and graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery degree in 1987. He undertook his one-year housemanship with the Oyo State Hospitals Management Board and rotated through the Adeoyo Specialist Hospital, Ring Road Specialist Hospital, and Oni Memorial Children's Hospital – all in Ibadan from 1987 to 1988. He observed the mandatory one-year National Youth Service Corps Programme at Okigwe Local Government, old Imo State, from 1988 to 1989. He returned to Ibadan in 1989 and worked as a Medical Officer II with the Oyo State Hospitals Management Board until 1991, when Osun State was created.
When the then military governor of Oyo State - the Late Colonel Abdulkareem Adisa gave Osun State indigenes the marching order, like other Osun State indigenes, Prof Osungbade moved his service to Osun State in October 1991. However, he resigned his appointment from the Osun State Hospitals Management Board in February 1992 to commence his residency training in community health at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife on the 1st March, 1992. He crossed over to the Department of Community Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan on the 1st September, 1992 to continue his residency training, which he completed in May 1997. He is a Fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (Public Health and Community Medicine) and the West African College of Physicians (Community Health). He holds an MSc. (Bioethics), an MPhil (Public Health), and a Doctor of Medicine (MD) and a PhD(Public Health, Obafemi Awolowo University,2024). He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Medicine (FNAMed).
He joined the service of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan in November 1998 as a Lecturer Grade I and was promoted to the Senior Lecturer Grade in 2002. He was appointed an Honorary Consultant Public Health Physician to the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria, in 2004. He was appointed the first Professor of Health Policy and Management at the university on 1st October, 2014. As a senior resident in community health, he served as the acting Coordinator of Studies, Ibarapa Programme from 1995 to 1998 and as the substantive Coordinator of Studies, Ibarapa Programme from 1999 till 2008.
Professor Osungbade was appointed Acting Head of the Department of Community Medicine from 1st August, 2008 to 31st July, 2010. Following the retirement of the first head of the Health Policy and Management, he took over the mantle of leadership of the new department of Health Policy and Management from 1st October, 2010 to 31st July, 2020; thus serving either as an acting or substantive Head of Department for 12 unbroken years. As a result of the ‘Japa Syndrome’ that hit his department, he has accepted to serve again as the head of the department from 1st August, 2024 to 31st July, 2026.
Professor Osungbade won a one-year World Health Organisation (WHO) Fellowship on Management of Public Health Trainings in 2003; the fellowship was based at the WHO Centre for Vulnerability Reduction, Tunis, Tunisia. During the period of the fellowship, he participated in the development of several training packages for WHO programme officers and conducted and managed international trainings and workshops for WHO programme officers in African countries. He was subsequently given a 6-month temporary appointment as the Training Officer of the Centre, after which he returned to Nigeria in July 2005. He was on the team that packaged and reviewed the 2005 World Health Report of the WHO.
Professor Osungbade teaches health policy and management, primary health care, health care financing and economics, communicable (Tropical) disease control, and medical and health research ethics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has supervised 150 Masters degree students; supervised/co-supervised 4 PhD students and 10 fellowship dissertations of both the National Postgraduate Medical College and West African College of Physicians in the specialty of community health, public health and community medicine. He has served as an external examiner at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in many Nigerian universities, including University of Lagos; Lagos State University; Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; University of Ilorin, Ilorin; Olabisi Onabanjo University, Sagamu; University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt; University of Calabar, Calabar; Igbinedon University, Benin; and Bowen University, Iwo. He has served as an observer for the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) at the final professional MBBS examinations in Community Medicine in Edo University, Uzairue and Peter and Mary Odili University of Medical Sciences (PAMO), Port Harcourt. He has served as on the accreditation teams of some academic and professional regulatory bodies - Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC), National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN) and West African College of Physicians (WACP) - to the following universities and teaching hospitals: Igbinedon University, Benin; Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma; Irua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irua; University of Ilorin, Ilorin; University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin; Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti; University of Lagos Teaching Hospital, Lagos; Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki; and Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos. He has been previously appointed as an external assessor for professorial candidates in the University of Lagos, Lagos; Gombe State University, Gombe; University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus; University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt; University of Uyo, Uyo; and Makerere University, Uganda. He is currently an examiner to the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN) and West African College of Physicians (WACP) at the membership and fellowship levels.
Professor Osungbade is a scientific and ethical reviewer for local and international journals; he is currently the Chairman of the Eleta Eye Institute Health Research Ethics Committee. He has served on several national and international expert committees on communicable and non-communicable diseases, namely HIV, malaria, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis and poliomyelitis. Professor Osungbade has participated and facilitated in many local, national and international workshops, including Communication, Mobilisation and Behavioural Initiative (COMBI) training at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Nairobi, Kenya in 2004, Teacher-Student Exchange Workshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2007, Health Systems Workshop in Kupio, Finland in 2009 and CARTA-sponsored PhD Supervisors trainings in Malawi and South Africa in 2018 and 2020, respectively to mention a few.
He has worked with many research collaborators and groups on several research grants from international partners, notably the World AIDS Foundation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland, Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction of the World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland, UNIFEM New York, Malaria Consortium, and Ford Foundation/Nigeria Academy of Science. He has published extensively in local and international peer review journals and has over 70 publications to his credit.
He is a member of a number of academic and professional bodies, notably the Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria (APHPN) and Nigeria Medical Association (NMA). Within University of Ibadan, he has served on a number of committees at the departmental, faculty and university levels at various times. He is currently the Faculty of Public Health representative on the Central Appointments and Promotions Committee. Professor Kayode Omoniyi Osungbade is happily married to Mrs. Damilola Jumoke Osungbade and the union is blessed with three children – Oluwatomide, Ayomide and TiwaladeOluwa.