11 Facts About Dele Ogunseitan

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Oladele "Dele" Abiola Ogunseitan is a Nigerian public health researcher who is the University of California Presidential Chair at the University of California, Irvine.

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Dele Ogunseitan's research considers how toxic pollutants impact human and environmental health.

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Dele Ogunseitan is an elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Dele Ogunseitan attended Obafemi Awolowo University, where he started his studies in microbiology.

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Dele Ogunseitan joined the University of Tennessee as a doctoral student working on environmental microbiology and microbial ecology.

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Dele Ogunseitan earned a Master of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.

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In 1992 Dele Ogunseitan joined the faculty at the University of California, Irvine.

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Dele Ogunseitan's research considers the evaluation of risk factors that damage human and environmental health, including electronic waste.

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Dele Ogunseitan was made University of California Presidential Chair in 2019.

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Dele Ogunseitan serves on the Advisory Board of the UC Center Sacramento.

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In 2019, Dele 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.