Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Adjunct Professor
Email: fawoleo@ymail.com
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Education
- PhD, Clinical and Health Professions Education, University of Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa (2019)
- MSc, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (2009)
- FWACP, Fellow West African Post Graduate Medical College (Community Medicine), Lagos, Nigeria (1996)
- MBBS, University of Ibadan, Nigeria (1987)
Biography
Olufunmilayo I. Fawole is a Professor of Epidemiology and the current Dean of the Faculty of Public Health in the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is a Public Health Physician and also an Honorary Consultant with the University College Hospital, Ibadan. She has over 15 years of work experience on Gender based Violence research/ Women Empowerment and is one of the leading researchers in the field in Nigeria. She has over 70 peer reveiwed publications and 15 research grants in this discipline. She just completed a three phased mixed method study that determined the content and strategies to be used in the design of a GBV curriculum for medical students. Presently, she is working on a project that aims to empower young girls and women by providing financial literacy using a mobile technology.