Dele Ogunseitan Explained

Oladele Abiola Ogunseitan
Birth Place:Nigeria
Workplaces:University of California, Irvine
Alma Mater:University of Ife
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
University of California, Berkeley
Thesis Title:Molecular ecology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophages in a freshwater environment
Thesis Url:http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18935822
Thesis Year:1988

Oladele "Dele" Abiola Ogunseitan is a Nigerian public health researcher who is the University of California Presidential Chair at the University of California, Irvine. His research considers how toxic pollutants impact human and environmental health. He is an elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Early life and education

Ogunseitan was born in Nigeria. He attended Obafemi Awolowo University, where he started his studies in microbiology. After earning his master's degree in 1983, Ogunseitan moved to the United States. He joined the University of Tennessee as a doctoral student working on environmental microbiology and microbial ecology. He earned a Master of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1998, Ogunseitan was made a Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory.[1]

Research and career

In 1992 Ogunseitan joined the faculty at the University of California, Irvine.[2] His research considers the evaluation of risk factors that damage human and environmental health, including electronic waste.[3]

Ogunseitan was the founding chair of the University of California, Irvine Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention (2007-2019).[4] He was made University of California Presidential Chair in 2019. He serves on the Advisory Board of the UC Center Sacramento.[5] In 1999, he was appointed as a Faculty Fellow on the Global Environmental Assessment Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[6] In 2019, Ogunseitan was appointed to the USAID's One Health Workforce-Next Generation project, which seeks to eliminate public health crises through training programmes for health workers.[7]

Awards and honours

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Symposium Keynote Speaker. 2020-11-28. www.urop.uci.edu. 2020-12-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20201210054835/https://www.urop.uci.edu/symposium/past_symposia/16/program_keynote.html. dead.
  2. Web site: 2019-09-04. Oladele Ogunseitan is appointed UC Presidential Chair at UCI. 2020-11-28. UCI News. en-US.
  3. Web site: Ogunseitan. Oladele A.. 2010-01-06. The Wild West of Electronic Waste by Oladele A. Ogunseitan. 2020-11-28. Project Syndicate. en.
  4. Web site: Oladele Ogunseitan Oladele Ogunseitan. 2020-11-28. faculty.sites.uci.edu.
  5. News: Oladele A. Ogunseitan — UC Center Sacramento. en. 2020-11-28. 2020-09-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20200928004759/https://uccs.ucdavis.edu/about/advisory-board/oladele-a-ogunseitan. dead.
  6. Web site: Ogunseitan. Oladele A.. Framing Vulnerability: Global Environmental Assessments and the African Burden of Disease. 2020-11-29.
  7. Web site: UCI's Oladele Ogunseitan joins executive team of USAID-funded global health project. 2020-11-28. www.newswise.com. en.
  8. Web site: Ogunseitan Bio. 2020-11-28. sites.nationalacademies.org.
  9. Web site: AAAS Announces Leading Scientists Elected as 2020 Fellows American Association for the Advancement of Science. 2020-11-28. www.aaas.org. en.