Dean, College of Basic Medical Sciences
Professor Prisca Olabisi Adejumo, PhD, RN, RM, FP, BSN, MSN, FWACN, IIWCC
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Professor Prisca Olabisi Adejumo, PhD, RN, RM, FP, BSN, MSN, FWACN, IIWCC of the Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan (COMUI) is a world-renowned nurse researchers inducted into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. Prof. Prisca Olabisi Adejumo is the current Dean of Nursing Department, Chrisland University.
The remarkable accomplishment of Prof. Prisca Olabisi Adejumo as member of this prestigious body is a pointer to her excellent and valuable resource contributions to the entire nursing career.
Professor Adejumo obtained a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master of Science in Medical Surgical Nursing in 1996 and 1999 respectively from the University of Ibadan. She then obtained a Masters in Medical Sociology in 2000 and went on to complete a doctoral in Medical Sociology and Genetics in 2011 also at the University of Ibadan. She had periods of training in the College of Nursing, University of Iowa and the University of Chicago and went on to obtain another doctoral in Nursing in 2016 from the University of Ibadan.
Professor Adejumo is both a Nurse Practitioner and Medical Sociologist with expertise in ethnographic and survey research, psychosocial determinants of human behaviour in health, health communication and behaviour modification. Her research interests focus on health and professional education, cancer genetics, genetic counselling and risk factors for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). She has led several research and training projects with local and international partnerships and published over a hundred peer review articles. She is the immediate past Head of Nursing and her tenure was marked with much transformation and impact. She is also a member of the competencies committee of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health.
Some of her on-going research work includes the “African Association for Health Professions Education and Research/The African Forum for Research and Education for Health (AFREhealth)”, “Implementation Science of Genetics of stroke within the SIBS Genomics Study (SIBS-Gen-Gen)”, “Establishing West African Oncogenetics Network” and “Gynecological Cancers Genetic Risk Assessment for Cancer Prevention and Treatment (GRASP-T Study)”.
Prof. Prisca was a visiting lecturer scholar to the University of lowa, lowa and the university of Chicago, centre for global health Illinois, USA. She is an MPI on the current AfreHEALTH (African Forum for Research and Education in Health) NIH grant.
Prof. Adejumo has tremendous interprofessional and interdisciplinary interest and was recently accepted into 2021 Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research Fellowship at FAIRMER institute.
She also served as WHO consultant and project coordinator and a current Global Health competency subcommittee member of Consortium of University for Global Health (CUGH). She mentored many students in different capacities and watched them thrive in their chosen fields. She is the co-founder of FYNI along with her husband who is the founder of Initiative. She envisions this initiative will be a channel for empowering younger nurses and Nursing students navigate the nursing profession in the 21st century and beyond.
Prisca is happily married to Professor Adebayo Adejumo, BSc Nursing; MSc Clinical Psy; PhD Dev. Psy (Ibadan); MHSc Bioethics (Univ of Toronto, Canada), a Professor of Health Psychology and Research Ethics at the University of Ibadan and they are blessed with wonderful children and grandchildren. Professor Prisca Olabisi Adejumo is a woman with great virtue. Her hobbies include reading and preaching.
