Professor Folasade Tolulope Ogunsola
MBChB, MSc, PhD, FMCPath, FWACP, FAS
Professor Folasade Tolulope Ogunsola will be talking on, "Preventing Transmission of Tuberculosis in Healthcare in LMICs. What works. TB Treatment Update"
Folasade Ogunsola is a Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the College of Medicine University of Lagos, Nigeria and a Deputy Vice Chancellor Development services University of Lagos.
She has been involved in the diagnosis and management of Infectious diseases and Infection Control for 20 years and contributed significantly in raising awareness of infection Control in Nigeria. She was the Chair of the Infection Control Committee of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital till 2012 and the team lead for Infection Prevention and Control during the 2014 Ebola disease outbreak in Nigeria. She has worked as a consultant in IPC with the World Health Organisation.
She is interested in the diagnosis and management of Sepsis and applications of Infection Control principles in under-resourced communities. Between 2004-2007, she was the site PI for the multi-center randomized double-blind placebo controlled clinical trial of 6% cellulose sulphate (a microbicide) and HIV and was responsible for critical aspects of its design as well as its implementation in Lagos.
More recently she was the Infection Control Lead for the Ebola Outbreak in Nigeria. She was the Lagos site PI for the Fogarty sponsored Medical Education Partnership Initiative in Nigeria between 2010 and 2015 during which many young scientists were trained and mentored for research and research management. She is the PI for the Fogarty sponsored Junior MEPI grant ,BRAINS (Building Research and Innovation in Nigeria’s Science) and a PI for the NIH U54 grant of Epigenomic Biomarkers of HIV-Associated Cancers in Nigeria.
She is a member of the Infectious Disease Society of America, American Society for Microbiology, Global Infection Prevention and control Network, board member of the Nigerian Society for Infection Control and Chair of the Infection Control African Network and has over 100 publications in peer reviewed national and international journals.