ADEKUNLE GREGORY FAKUNLE
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Dr Adekunle Gregory Fakunle is an Environmental Epidemiologist and lecturer/researcher in the Department of Public Health at Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria. He holds a master's degree in Public Health from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and a PhD in Occupational and Environmental Health from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. He is a member of the Nigerian Young Academy (NYA), a fellow of the European Respiratory Society (ERS), a visiting scholar at the Institute of Risk Assessment Science (IRAS), Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and the 2025 UNIOSUN Distinguished Young Investigator. On the global scale, he is among the top 500 authors in Nigeria according to SciVal/Elsevier scholarly output (20202026), and the new International Society for Hypertension (ISH) Emerging Leader for Africa with a focus on exposure science, housing and health, and air pollution. Dr Fakunle is the Co-Principal Investigator for the CARDINAL project, which was supported by the World Heart Federation (WHF) to assess the knowledge, attitude and behaviourr of vulnerable populations of men and women on the link between air pollution and cardiovascular diseases, and the Principal Investigator for the CARDINAL-HTN study funded by the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH). In his quest to unravel the impact of environmental exposures on communicable and non-communicable diseases, he developed a novel RespoXcel Gamified application to reduce the burden of respiratory diseases among children and a culturally sensitive AirHealth initiative to improve the cardiovascular benefits of reduced exposure to air pollution. Dr Fakunle has several awards to his name, including the American Society for Human Genetics (ASHGs) Resource Limited Award, the World Stroke Congress (WSC) Young Investigator Award, the 2022/2023 Best Researcher of the College of Health Sciences, Osun State University award and so on. Dr Fakunle has several publications in high-impac, peer-reviewed journals indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, and others. His career goal is to contribute significantly to reducing exposure to air pollution, improving cleaner air and mitigating the escalating burden of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.Formação
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South AfricaPh.D. in Occupational and Environmental Health September 2022
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Master of Public Health (MPH/M.Phil) October 2008 2012
University of Ilorin, Ilorin
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) in Microbiology
(Second Class Upper Division) March 2004 Dec. 2006
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Exposure Science, Environmental Epidemiology, Air Pollution, Bioaerosols, Microbial Genetics, Environmental Microbiology, Child Health, Cardiovascular research, Cancer research.Site
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