Olanike Adeyemo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Olanike Adeyemo

Nigerian professor of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine

Date of Birth: 17-Jul-1970

Place of Birth: Oyo State, Nigeria

Profession: veterinarian, researcher, academic

Nationality: Nigeria

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Olanike Adeyemo

  • Olanike Kudirat Adeyemo, PhD, FCVSN, FAAS, FAS, FTWAS is a Nigerian professor of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine at University of Ibadan.
  • She is the current Deputy Vice Chancellor (research, innovation and strategic partnership), the first person to attain the role.
  • Her research areas are on Aquatic toxicology, Aquatic veterinary medicine and fish food safety. Adeyemo's research is focused on Aquatic and Wildlife Epidemiology and Toxicology, Food Safety and Global Public Health.
  • Her research which has been widely cited, established the contamination of Nigeria's aquatic system by lead and produced reference database for pollution using GIS technology, Spatial Analysis and GIS modelling.
  • She has also linked ecotoxicology to epidemiology of diseases in fish and wildlife; public health risk associated with food safety and contact with infectious diseases.
  • In 2011, she was appointed an epidemiological and toxicological expert on the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee (JECFA) and the appointment was renewed in 2016, a consultant to Milieudefensie, the Netherlands.
  • She has 110 publications in learned journals.
  • Outside of the University, she has served regionally and internationally, for example, as a reviewer to 22 internationally recognized learned journals (2003 to date), Executive member, of the Global Young Academy (2013), member, African Academy of Sciences’ Commission on Women in Science in Africa (2014-date), member, Mauritius Declaration on Ocean Sciences (2016), member, Nigeria Academy of Science Committee on Science Advice in Africa (2019), Expert Group of the High-Level Panel on Building a Sustainable Ocean Economy (2019).
  • Professor Adeyemo was Featured in “Women in Science - Inspiring Stories from Africa”, a publication of Network of African Science Academies (NASAC), which profiled thirty women from eighteen countries across Africa, who have excelled in various STEM careers.
  • She is Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (2019), Fellow Society for Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Mitigation (2019), Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science (2016), Fellow, African Academy of Sciences (2012), Fellow (2010) African Scientific Institute (California, USA) and listed in ASI’s 2011 edition of “Black Achievers in Science and Technology.
  • She is a 2007 Fellow, Eisenhower Fellowship Program and Fellow Leadership for Environment and Development, UK (2002).
  • She also holds the membership of several other learned societies.
  • Adeyemo is happily married to Abiodun, a pharmacist, and has 3 boys and a girl.

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