Invitation to the 592nd Inaugural Lecture of the University of Ibadan
The 592nd Inaugural Lecture of the University of Ibadan will be delivered by Professor Olayinka Olusola Omigbodun, FAS (CoMUI Alumna, MBBS Class of 1985), on behalf of the Faculty of Clinical Sciences in the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan.
The general public is invited to the 592nd Inaugural Lecture to be delivered by Professor Olayinka O. Omigbodun, FAS of the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan.
The details of the event are given below:
Theme: Our Children’s Mental Health, Our Nation’s Wealth!
Date: Thursday, 11 September 2025
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Trenchard Hall, University of Ibadan
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BIODATA OF PROFESSOR OLAYINKA OLUSOLA OMIGBODUN FAS, FNAMed, FAMedS
Professor Olayinka Olusola Omigbodun was born on 11 February 1963 at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, a place that would later become central to her entire academic and professional life. Her father was Lieutenant Colonel Victor Adebukunola Banjo, the Commanding Officer of the Apapa Infantry Division and the first Nigerian Director of the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Corps of the Army. He hailed from Ijebu-Ode. Professor Omigbodun’s mother, Mrs Taiwo Joyce Banjo, née George, was a Creole from Kissy, Freetown, Sierra Leone; she was also a descendant of freed slaves, whose birth certificate records her ancestry as father’s race, Ijesa, and mother’s race, Igbo.
Professor Omigbodun started nursery education at Adrao International School, Victoria Island, Lagos, but the turbulence of the Nigerian Civil War and other difficult circumstances forced her mother to leave the country with her children and return to her homeland. Professor Omigbodun spent her early childhood outside Nigeria, attending Holy Rosary Primary School, Kenema, and St Anne’s Primary School in Freetown. When the family returned to Nigeria after the war, she completed her primary education at the Staff School, University of Ibadan, and entered St Louis Grammar School, Ibadan in 1973 for her secondary education. Professor Omigbodun excelled all round, as she was an athlete at school, winning the 100 metres final in her final year. She also represented the Ibadan/Ibarapa zone in the 200 metres women’s race at the Oyo State level. She also learnt how to play the piano and guitar. Apart from being a member of the school choir, she joined the University of Ibadan Music Circle (along with her music teacher, Sister Galgani) while she was in secondary school. In her final year, when she was Assistant Head Girl, she received the Character and Service Award, a prize awarded by the Ibadan Catholic Diocese to the most outstanding student in character and service. She moved to the International School, Ibadan for her Advanced Levels and from there she gained admission to study Medicine at the University of Ibadan in 1980. She graduated MBBS in 1985, winning the prize in Physiology.
Following her internship at the University College Hospital in 1986 and her National Youth Service Corps year, where she gained direct exposure to psychiatry, she chose psychiatry as her professional calling, with a particular interest in the child and adolescent mental health subspecialty. She began residency training in psychiatry at the University College Hospital, Ibadan in 1987. Between 1990 and 1992, she trained at the Lancaster Moor Hospital, Lancaster, and the Queen’s Park Hospital, Blackburn, in the United Kingdom. During her time in the United Kingdom, she was able to complete her dissertations, and, in 1991, she returned to Nigeria to sit for the final examinations of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria and the West African College of Physicians, obtaining the fellowship of both colleges. She also earned a Diploma in Psychiatry from the Victorian University of Manchester in 1992.
In 1993, she travelled to the United States of America with her family and trained in psychotherapy at the Department of Family Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. She was also a visiting scholar at the Bipolar Research Unit of the same institution from 1993 to 1996. She returned to Nigeria in January 1997 and was appointed Lecturer Grade One in the Department of Psychiatry in March 1997.
In 1998, she won the competitive British Chevening Scholarship and returned to the United Kingdom to study for a Master of Public Health (MPH) at the Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds. She graduated in 1999 with a distinction, winning the John Griffiths Prize for outstanding performance. Her dissertation, Integrating Mental Health into Primary Health Care in Nigeria with Clearly Defined Roles for Psychiatric Hospitals: Developing a Pilot Project for Ibadan, obtained the award for the best dissertation of the year and was described by her examiners as the best in recent years. She returned to the University of Ibadan in 1999, combining teaching, research, and clinical work. In 2004, with support from the University of Ibadan’s MacArthur Foundation Staff Development Programme, she undertook further training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Greenwood Institute for Child Health, University of Leicester, United Kingdom.
In 1999, she established a clinic dedicated to children and adolescents with mental health concerns at the University College Hospital, Ibadan. From one clinic, this service expanded into three specialised clinics, a day care centre, an in-patient ward, and liaison services to other departments. This evolved into the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit and later into the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the first of its kind in any teaching hospital in Nigeria. As the pioneer head of department, she laid the foundation for a sustainable subspecialty within Nigerian psychiatry, inspiring many younger doctors to train in this field. She initiated outreach programmes such as mental health care at the Ibadan Remand Home, needs assessments and teacher training in schools across Oyo State, as well as partnerships with the SOS Children’s Village in Owu-Ijebu and the Ibadan School for Children with Disabilities.
Professor Omigbodun’s participation in teaching at the university level dates to 1988, when as a resident doctor, she taught medical students. Since then, she has participated in teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the department. She won the Favourite Lecturer Award for the 2001/2002 Session, presented by the University of Ibadan Medical Students, at the 39th UIMSA Health Week Award Ceremony, August 2003.
She rose through the academic ranks and on 1 October 2008, Professor Omigbodun was promoted Professor of Psychiatry, becoming the first woman in Nigeria to achieve that distinction.
In 2011, she founded the Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CCAMH) at the University of Ibadan, with a US$950,000 Higher Education grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and was Director from 2011 to 2020. This was the first multidisciplinary centre of its kind in Africa, offering diploma, master’s, and doctoral programmes in child and adolescent mental health, delivered by a multiprofessional faculty to a multidisciplinary group of students. The centre has attracted more than 200 students from fourteen African countries. CCAMH has become a continental hub, multiplying her vision across borders.
Her research activities have been consistently innovative, covering subjects such as suicidal behaviour among adolescents, school mental health, maternal depression, autism spectrum disorders, female genital mutilation and its consequences, and the mental health implications of urbanisation. She has conducted controlled trials of school-based psychosocial interventions, including culturally adapted cognitive behavioural therapy, proving their effectiveness in low-resource settings. Her work has attracted significant funding. Over the past five years alone, she has led projects worth over six million dollars, including ACCELERATE (Global Challenges Research Fund Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub), iCARE (Intensive Combination Approach to Rollback the Epidemic in Nigerian Adolescents), SUCCEED Africa (Support, Comprehensive Care and Empowerment for people with psychosocial Disability in Africa), TRANSFORM (Transforming Access to Care for Serious Mental Disorder in Slums), ARISE&WIN (Advancing Resiliency in Self-Employed Women in Nigeria), SHINE (Supporting Healthy LivIng and Nutrition in School-Age Adolescents) and WEALTH (Women dErive mAthematical modeLs for menTal Health). These projects have been providing inclusive support and empowerment for vulnerable groups in low-income households.
Her service to the University of Ibadan and the University College Hospital has been consistent and intentional. She has served on the university’s Senate since 2008. For over two decades she provided mental health care to staff and students at the University Health Service (Jaja Clinic). She was Head of Psychiatry from 2015 to 2019. In July 2020, she was elected the twelfth and first female Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. During her time as Provost, she steered the College with energy and vision and sustained its ranking as the best medical school in Nigeria and among the top five in Africa.
She spearheaded alumni mobilisation worldwide, working in partnership with the leadership of the Ibadan College of Medicine Alumni Association (ICOMAA) Worldwide. She facilitated the opening of new chapters and a global fundraising drive. This resulted in the Student Hostel Building Project, which will add 664 new bed spaces across six blocks of residence on the UCH campus. She also initiated the Global Sponsor-A-Student Programme (GSASP). By the time she left office, the programme had raised over ₦118,050,600 (USD 78,700) and was providing partial and full scholarships (covering tuition, health levies, accommodation, and upkeep) to 173 students.
Under the new leadership of the College, GSASP and ICOMAA Worldwide, GSASP has continued to grow significantly, now raising over ₦260,102,184.38 (USD 173,400) and supporting 269 students. These initiatives, supported primarily by alumni, have transformed the academic and social environment of the College.
She was recognised internationally early in her career. She was a recipient of the World Psychiatry Association Section on Mental Health Economics Scholarship, the Donald Cohen Fellowship of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) in 2004, and in 2005, she was named the first Presidential Fellow of IACAPAP. In 2010, at the Beijing Congress, she was elected President, the first African to hold the office in the organisation’s history of more than eighty years. She served until 2014. She co-led IACAPAP study groups in Nairobi and Abuja in 2007 and 2009, with Professor Brian Robertson of the University of Cape Town, which gave rise to the African Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, where she served as Foundation President from 2008 to 2014. In 2012, she inspired the creation of the Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions in Nigeria, where she remains a trustee. She was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Association for Women’s Mental Health in 2011 and appointed a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health, Commissioner and Member, International Advisory Board for The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, and Member, Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health.
She has worked with the World Health Organisation (WHO) on the Mental Health Gap Action (mhGAP) intervention guide and facilitated training to several locations, including Asmara, Eritrea. She was a member of the WHO Committee on revisions of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry aspects of the International Classification for Diseases (ICD-11), and on global reviews of maternal and child mental health and the psychological consequences of female genital mutilation. She has also worked with UNICEF on child and adolescent mental health.
She has delivered at least thirty-six named lectures and keynotes at major international conferences and workshops between 2005 and 2025 in places such as Beijing, China; Athens, Greece; Steyning, United Kingdom; New York, United States of America; Helsinki, Finland; Windhoek, Namibia; Lisbon, Portugal; Karachi, Pakistan; Mexico City, Mexico; Arusha, Tanzania; Vancouver, Canada; Taipei, Taiwan; Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe; Madrid, Spain; Yokohama, Japan; Melbourne, Australia; Basel, Switzerland; Berlin, Germany; Nairobi, Kenya; Cairo, Egypt; and Calgary, Canada.
She served as Congress President at the 20th Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) in Paris, France, from July 21 to 25, 2012, and at the 21st Congress in Durban, South Africa, from August 11 to 15, 2014.
She also served as Coordinator of Courses in the Faculty of Psychiatry in the West African College of Physicians (WACP) from 2016 to 2020, and Revision Course Coordinator from 2005 to 2020 in the same faculty. She was Chief Examiner in the Faculty of Psychiatry for WACP from 2012 to 2016. She led the development of the curriculum for subspecialty training in child and adolescent psychiatry for the National Postgraduate Medicine College of Nigeria in 2021 and worked for the accreditation of UCH, Ibadan, for training in child and adolescent psychiatry, the first site to be accredited in Nigeria. She also prepared and presented the first two candidates for subspecialty training in CAP in Nigeria. She is presently the Chairperson of the WACP Nigeria Chapter Continuing Medical Education (CME) Committee. She was selected by the Faculty of Psychiatry in the WACP to deliver both the prestigious Sir Samuel Manuwa Lecture in Lagos, Nigeria, in 2012 and the Professor John Oluyemi Mabayoje College Lecture in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 2019.
She has supervised 17 dissertations submitted to the West African Postgraduate Medical College in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the fellowship of the WACP in the Faculty of Psychiatry, and 4 dissertations submitted to the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria in the Faculty of Psychiatry in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the fellowship of the College. She has supervised 98 Research Projects submitted to the Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, University of Ibadan (CCAMH), in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the Master of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (MSc. CAMH).
She has also received several distinguished awards, including recognition as one of the Top 8 Finalists for the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize 2024 for her pioneering work in child and adolescent mental health, the 2023 Innovative Research, Training or Practice in LMICs Award from the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (UK) conferred on CCAMH under her leadership, the 2020 International Contribution Award at the 24th World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) for her outstanding promotion of child and adolescent psychiatry in the developing world, and the 2019 Leadership in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Award from the African Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (AACAMH).
She is currently supervising four doctoral students, two at the University of Warwick as part of the TRANSFORM grant and two in CCAMH, UI including one as a part of the African Mental Health Research Initiative II (AMARI-II) West Africa Hub. Professor Omigbodun is a Fellow of the Nigeria Academy of Science, and a foundation fellow in both the Nigerian Academy of Medicine (2020) and the Academy of Medical Sciences of Nigeria (2021). She is the Chairman of the Being Scientific and Strategy Advisory Board, Science for Africa (SFA) Foundation (2024–2026); a member of the International Science Council (ISC) Youth Mental Health Project (2024–2026); and a member of the Advisory Committee, Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Global Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the Child Mind Institute (2023–2025).
She has published more than 160 scholarly papers and book chapters, covering all aspects of mental health, especially pertaining to children and adolescents. Her 2008 paper on suicidal behaviour among Nigerian adolescents remains a landmark study, widely cited across the world. She has over 14,000 citations and an h-index of 40 on Google Scholar as of August 2025.
Professor Omigbodun is married to Professor Akinyinka Omokolapo Omigbodun, an obstetrician and gynaecologist and the 8th Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. They are blessed with children, Dr Akinyinka OreOluwa Omigbodun and Drs Kwabena Poku and Iyeyinka AanuOluwahan Kusi-Mensah, with SomNyame Ogoyinka. Professor Omigbodun enjoys music, singing, and playing the guitar. She leads the children’s choir in her church, where she serves as the Superintendent of the Children’s Ministry.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor K.O. Adebowale, FAS, mni, cordially invites you to the 586th Inaugural Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Amos O. Adeleye of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan (CoMUI).
TITLE: ADVERSITY. NEUROSUGERY. INNOVATIONS. IBADAN
DATE: THURSDAY, 10TH JULY, 2025
TIME: 3:00 P.M. West Central Africa
VENUE: TRENCHARD HALL, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN
TO BE DELIVERED BY: PROFESSOR AMOS O. ADELEYE
Thank you
Prof. Temidayo Ogundiran FAS
Provost
586TH INAUGURAL LECTURE, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN, BY PROFESSOR AMOS O. ADELEYE
Modern-day practice of neurological surgery is expensive due to its dependence on cutting-edge technology in advanced centers of the West. In contrast, the practice in Nigeria, as in most developing countries, is still plagued by the well-known, peculiar systemic challenges of our resource-constrained socio-demographics. Nevertheless, we strive to practice this same rarefied field of medical /surgical science in our austere milieu with an irrepressible spirit that seeks to meet the global standard-of-care metrics.
This Inaugural lecture, the 586th, is titled Adversity. Neurosurgery. Innovations. Ibadan. It proposes to showcase how we believe we are not wide of the mark in this pursuit.
Receiving his medical education here in the University of Ibadan, as well as his training in the surgical subspecialty of Neurosurgery in the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, Professor Olufemi Adeleye, went further to observe a 2-year training in yet another subspecialty of Neurosurgery, which is Skull Base Surgery, for two years in Jerusalem, at Israel’s foremost center of medical education, the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Ein-Kerem Jerusalem. He also underwent several short stints at other prominent units in the West, Europe, and the United States of America, including Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, and Harvard Medical School, at the Children’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Returning home, to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, he began his academic neurosurgery journey as Lecturer I in the College of Medicine. He put a lot of the knowledge and skills acquired abroad to use, modified and adapted them to the local environment here, and often came up with innovative ways of delivering reasonably advanced care to his patients. This lecture features some instances of these innovations amid adversity here in Ibadan, Nigeria, in Neurosurgery.
In one instance, he converts the surgical treatment of compound depressed skull fracture from the usual multi-stage, at least double, to a single-stage surgical treatment. The same was done to the surgical treatment of compound complex frontal-orbital convexital skull fracture. Similarly, he treats well-selected cases of chronic subdural haematoma non-operatively; and when he chooses to operate, he innovated a much less disruptive surgical procedure, single frontal burr-hole craniostomy under local anaesthesia plus sedation, for the procedure.
Over time, he has devised other less-disruptive surgical procedures for certain neurosurgical conditions. One example is a nuanced practice of Awake Craniotomy in several patients, and this is in situations that pose fundamental logistic constraints. Another one is the use of an old neurosurgical technique of osteoplastic craniotomy to execute the procedure of hinged decompressive craniectomy, or hinged craniotomy, to try to surgically mitigate raised intracranial pressure.
Finally, this lecture also highlights the lecturer as the only known published academic neurosurgeon on the subject of non-shaved cranial surgery in all of the black-man's world.
In all, rigorously acquired clinical data are used to document the tolerable outcomes, some as good as those obtainable in much better-resourced units in the West, of many of the surgical innovations.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor K.O. Adebowale, FAS, mni, cordially invites you to the 582nd Inaugural Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Victor I. Akinmoladun of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan (CoMUI).
TITLE: THE SCALPEL AND THE LABORATORY: COLLABORATION AGAINST THE LAWLESS
DATE: THURSDAY, 5TH JUNE, 2025
TIME: 3:00 P.M. West Central Africa
VENUE: TRENCHARD HALL, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN
TO BE DELIVERED BY: PROFESSOR VICTOR I. AKINMOLADUN
Thank you
Prof. Temidayo Ogundiran FAS
Provost
PROFESSOR VICTOR I. AKINMOLADUN BIODATA
Professor Victor I. Akinmoladun was born to Dr. Olufemi and Mrs Adefolurin Akinmoladun in Ondo, Ondo state. Both parents were teachers before proceeding to the United States for further education in the late 60s. He spent his earlier years with his grandparents who were farmers in his home town of Ondo, while his parents were studying abroad. He had his primary education at the little known C.A.C Primary School, Oke-Igbala, Ondo and his secondary education at the Saint Thomas Aquinas College, Akure (1977 to 1982). He was admitted to the Obafemi Awolowo University to study Dentistry in 1983 and obtained the BCh.D degree in 1989. He had his housemanship at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City. His National Youth Corp Service took place at the General Hospital, Ikeja Lagos.
He worked briefly with the Lagos State Hospitals’ Management Board before proceeding to the United Kingdom for specialist training. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FDSRCS) as well and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (FFDRCS). Professor Akinmoladun is also a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons and a one-term member of the Board, Faculty of Dental Surgery of the College.
Upon his return to Nigeria after his sojourn in the United Kingdom, he joined the Ondo State Hospitals’ Management Board as a Consultant, at the then State Specialist Hospital, Akure, before he secured an appointment with the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. He was promoted Senior Lecturer in 2008. He obtained the Master of Science (M.Sc) degree, in Chemical Pathology from the University of Ibadan in 2008. He also acquired a Certificate in Immunology and Molecular Laboratory Techniques from the Makere University, Kampala, Uganda in 2012. He obtained the Ph.D (Basic Science-Immunology) of the University of Ibadan in the year 2021. He teaches tumour Immunology to the M.Sc students of the department of Immunology, University of Ibadan.
Professor Akinmoladun was promoted to the rank of a Professor by the University of Ibadan in 2019. He has co-authored over 80 articles in local and international journals and two book chapters. He was a recipient of the University of Ibadan Senate Research Grant in 2012 and was also awarded the TETfund Research and Training Grant in 2014. He is a recipient of several Smile Train (USA) Travel Fellowship grants to participate in Cleft Lip and Palate workshops, trainings and conferences.
He has served the University in various capacities; Professor Akinmoladun was a Sub-Dean (Postgraduate), in the Faculty of Dentistry, and he is currently the head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He was a Regional Coordinator (South west), Continuing Medical Education, of the Nigerian Medical Association. He is a reviewer to several local and international journals and an examiner to Dental schools in Nigeria and the West African College of surgeons.
He was the Deputy Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee (2015-2016) and then Chairman, (Director of Clinical Services, Research and Training (2016-2020) at the University College Hospital, Ibadan. He has attended several administrative management and leadership courses and holds the Policy, Strategy and Leadership Course (PSLC) certificate of the National Institute, Kuru, near Jos. Apart from service to the University and the University College Hospital, he is a Pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God and a member of the Board of Management of the Redemmer’s Health Centre, Ibadan. He is a member of several learned societies including the Nigerian Association of Cleft Lip and Palate, British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial surgeons, African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTC), and the Nigerian Society for Immunology amongst others. Professor Akinmoladun was Secretary, International Association for Dental Research (Nigerian Division) and the Nigerian Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. He is married to Dr. Janet A. Akinmoladun of the department of Radiology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor K.O. Adebowale, FAS, mni, cordially invites you to the 583rd Inaugural Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Samuel A. Onasanwo of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan (CoMUI).
TITLE: NUTRACEUTICALS AND BRAIN: EXPLORING THE NEUROPROTECTIVE ARSENAL FOR OPTIMAL BRAIN FUNCTION
DATE: THURSDAY, 19TH JUNE, 2025
TIME: 3:00 P.M. West Central Africa
VENUE: TRENCHARD HALL, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN
TO BE DELIVERED BY: PROFESSOR SAMUEL A. ONASANWO
Thank you
Prof. Temidayo Ogundiran FAS
Provost
PROFESSOR SAMUEL A. ONASANWO BIODATA
Professor Samuel Adetunji Onasanwo was born to the family of Prince Gabriel Idowu Onasanwo (of blessed memory) and Madam Margaret Jumoke Onasanwo over five decades ago at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Young Samuel had his primary education at Christ the King Convent School, Agugu, Ibadan, Nigeria, between 1979 and 1984. He had his secondary school education at Lagelu Grammar School, Agugu, Ibadan, Nigeria, between 1985 and 1989, where he obtained his West African School Certificate (WASC).
Thereafter, he proceeded to the University of Ibadan and graduated in 1996 from the Department of Physiology, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Physiology with Second Class Upper Division. As an undergraduate, he was the best graduating student in Physiology. He then proceeded for his compulsory National Youth Service in Rivers State, where he served at Government Secondary School, Eberi, Onuma, Port Harcourt, between 1997 and 1998.
Professor Samuel Onasanwo went on to obtain his M.Sc. (2000) and Ph.D. (2005) degrees in Physiology from the University of Ibadan. He began his academic career as an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Physiology, University of Ibadan, on 29th June 2000, shortly after completing his Master’s degree. He rose steadily through the ranks of the University’s promotion ladder and became a Professor of Physiology on 1st October 2019.
Professor Onasanwo has served (and is still serving) the University in various capacities: Sub-Dean (Undergraduate) from 2006 to 2014, Postgraduate Coordinator for the Department of Physiology from 2014 to 2018, and Sub-Dean (Postgraduate) from 2018 to 2022. He is currently the Head, Department of Physiology, a position he has held since 2024.
Professor Onasanwo has served as an External Examiner to several institutions, including the University of Benin; Obafemi Awolowo University; Afe Babalola University; Edo State University; Olabisi Onabanjo University; Ondo Medical University; University of Ilorin; University of Lagos; and the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
He is a member of several professional societies, including the Physiological Society of Nigeria (PSN), African Association of Physiological Sciences (AAPS), The Physiological Society UK, American Physiological Society (APS), Society for the Study of Pain (SSPN), International Association for the Study of Pain, Neuroscience Society of Nigeria (NSN), Society of Neuroscientists of Africa (SONA), and the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO). He has served as Financial Secretary and Treasurer of the Neuroscience Society of Nigeria (NSN), Treasurer of the Society of Neuroscientists of Africa (SONA), and Financial Secretary of the Physiological Society of Nigeria (PSN) to date.
As a scholar, Professor Onasanwo has successfully supervised six Ph.D. graduates in Physiology and Neuroscience, two M.Phil. students, many Master’s students, and numerous B.Sc. students. He is currently supervising three Ph.D. students. He has an H-index of 20 and has published over 71 articles in peer-reviewed journals, in addition to numerous conference proceedings and book chapters.
Professor Onasanwo has received numerous awards, including the Best Graduating Student Award in Physiology (1996). He received the prestigious Federal Government of Nigeria Postgraduate Scholarship Award in 2002. In 2004, he was awarded the Postgraduate Fellowship by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), which enabled him to carry out research at the Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow, India. He also received the INSA-JRD TATA Fellowship Award at the Regional Research Laboratory, Jammu-Tawi, India, in 2006.
In 2008, Professor Onasanwo was awarded a post-doctoral CSIR/TWAS Fellowship at the Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India. He obtained the Research Training Fellowship for Developing Country Scientists (RTFDCS) under the RTFDCS-CCSTDS (CICS) Fellowship and proceeded to the Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow, and the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, in 2011. In 2014, he received the International Junior Research Grant (IJRG) for short-term post-doctoral training at the School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
He has served as an External Examiner to the University of Benin, Benin City; Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti; Edo State University, Iyamho; Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye; Ondo Medical University, Ondo; University of Ilorin, Ilorin; University of Lagos, Idi-Araba; and the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Professor Onasanwo is a Pastor at Christ Life Church International, Ibadan. He is married to Mrs Olasubomi Onasanwo, a banker and businesswoman. Their marriage is blessed with two children: Peter Adesoji and Deborah Adeola.
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.
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