Dele Ogunseitan

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 among the world's most cited researchers on the topic of electronic waste[1] He is an elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine selected him as a Jefferson Science Fellow, facilitating his work with the Office of International Health and Biodefence at the U.S. Department of State where he focused on antibiotics as toxic environmental pollutants in the context of the global spread of antibiotic resistant pathogens.

Oladele Abiola Ogunseitan
Ogunseitan at UC Irvine's commencement ceremony in 2019
Born
Nigeria
Alma materUniversity of Ife
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
University of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Irvine
ThesisMolecular ecology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophages in a freshwater environment (1988)

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.[2]

Research and career

In 1992 Ogunseitan joined the faculty at the University of California, Irvine.[3] His research considers the evaluation of risk factors that damage human and environmental health, including electronic waste.[2][4]

Ogunseitan was the founding chair of the University of California, Irvine Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention (2007-2019).[5] He was made University of California Presidential Chair in 2019.[3] He serves on the Advisory Board of the UC Center Sacramento.[6] In 1999, he was appointed as a Faculty Fellow on the Global Environmental Assessment Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[7] 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.[8]

Awards and honours

Selected publications

References
  1. "Expertise in electronic waste:worldwide". Retrieved 2020-11-29.
  2. "Symposium Keynote Speaker". www.urop.uci.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  3. "Oladele Ogunseitan is appointed UC Presidential Chair at UCI". UCI News. 2019-09-04. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  4. Ogunseitan, Oladele A. (2010-01-06). "The Wild West of Electronic Waste | by Oladele A. Ogunseitan". Project Syndicate. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  5. "Oladele Ogunseitan | Oladele Ogunseitan". faculty.sites.uci.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  6. "Oladele A. Ogunseitan — UC Center Sacramento". Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  7. Ogunseitan, Oladele A. (2020-11-29). "Framing Vulnerability: Global Environmental Assessments and the African Burden of Disease".
  8. "UCI's Oladele Ogunseitan joins executive team of USAID-funded global health project". www.newswise.com. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  9. "Ogunseitan Bio". sites.nationalacademies.org. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  10. "AAAS Announces Leading Scientists Elected as 2020 Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
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