About Professor Adejumo

Professor Prisca Olabisi Adejumo is a nurse scientist, medical sociologist and academic leader whose work sits at the intersection of nursing, cancer genetics, genomics and health-professions education across Africa. She is Pioneer Dean of the Faculty of Nursing, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan.

Trained as a general nurse and midwife, she began her career in clinical practice in Ogun and Oyo States before joining the University of Ibadan in 2000, rising to Professor in 2014. She holds two doctorates from the University of Ibadan, in Medical Sociology (2004) and Medical-Surgical Nursing (2016), with further training at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Iowa and Chicago.

Across private, government, civil service and academic settings, she has served as Sub-Dean of Nursing and Physiotherapy, twice as Head of Department, as Dean of the College of Basic Medical Sciences and Faculty of Nursing at Chrisland University, and now as pioneer Dean at Ibadan. She was an executive member of the Society for AIDS in Africa and served for six years as a consultant on the NYSC and UNICEF HIV/AIDS reproductive health project across Nigeria's six geopolitical zones.

She is Treasurer of the African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth) Executive Council and Vice President (Nursing) of AORTIC. Within the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria she championed the Mandatory Continuing Professional Development Programme and served as its pioneer Southwest coordinator across Oyo, Ondo, Osun, Ogun, Ekiti and Lagos States.

She is the founder of the Focusing on Young Nurses Initiative (FYNI), a community of practice that equips young nurses to use their talents for the good of patients, the profession and health care.