Dele Ogunseitan

Oladele Abiola Ogunseitan
Dele Ogunseitan at UC Irvine's commencement ceremony in June 2019.
Born	Nigeria
Alma mater	University of Ife University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
Institutions	University of California, Irvine
Thesis	Molecular ecology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophages in a freshwater environment (1988)

Oladele "Dele" Abiola Ogunseitan is a Nigerian public health researcher who is the University of California Presidential Chair at the University of California, Irvine. His research considers how toxic pollutants impact human and environmental health. He is among the world's most cited researchers on the topic of electronic waste He is an elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine selected him as a Jefferson Science Fellow, facilitating his work with the Office of International Health and Biodefence at the U.S. Department of State where he focused on antibiotics as toxic environmental pollutants in the context of the global spread of antibiotic resistant pathogens.

Early life and education

Ogunseitan was born in Nigeria. He attended Obafemi Awolowo University, where he started his studies in microbiology. After earning his Masters degree in 1983, Ogunseitan moved to the United States. He joined the University of Tennessee as a doctoral student working on environmental microbiology and microbial ecology. He earned a Master of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1998, Ogunesitan was made a Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory.

Research and career

In 1992 Ogunseitan joined the faculty at the University of California, Irvine. His research considers the evaluation of risk factors that damage human and environmental health, including electronic waste.

Ogunseitan was the founding chair of the University of California, Irvine Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention (2007-2019). He was made University of California Presidential Chair in 2019. He serves on the Advisory Board of the UC Center Sacramento. In 2019, 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.

Awards and honours

• 2016 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Jefferson Science Fellow
• 2018 United States Department of State Meritorious Honour Award
• 2020 Elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Selected publications

• Ogunseitan, O. A.; Schoenung, J. M.; Saphores, J.-D. M.; Shapiro, A. A. (2009-10-30). "The Electronics Revolution: From E-Wonderland to E-Wasteland". Science. 326 (5953): 670–671. doi:10.1126/science.1176929. ISSN 0036-8075.
• Ogunseitan, Oladele A. (2013-10-30). "The Basel Convention and e-waste: translation of scientific uncertainty to protective policy". The Lancet Global Health. 1 (6): E313–E314. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(13)70110-4.
• Ogunseitan, Oladele A. (2017-08-31). "US coal plans flout mercury convention". Nature. 548: 523. doi:10.1038/548523a.
• Ogunseitan, Oladele A. (2015). "The asbestos paradox: global gaps in the translational science of disease prevention". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 93 (5): 359–360. doi:10.2471/BLT.14.142307.
• Awasthi, Kumar Abhishek; Li, Jinhui; Koh, Lenny; Ogunseitan, Oladele A. (2019-03-15). "Circular economy and electronic waste". Nature Electronics. 2: 86–89. doi:10.1038/s41928-019-0225-2.
• Saphores, Jean-Daniel M.; Nixon, Hilary; Ogunseitan, Oladele A.; Shapiro, Andrew A. (2016-07-26). "Household Willingness to Recycle Electronic Waste: An Application to California". Environment and Behavior. doi:10.1177/0013916505279045.
• Saphores, Jean-Daniel M.; Ogunseitan, Oladele A.; Shapiro, Andrew A. (March 2012). "Willingness to engage in a pro-environmental behavior: An analysis of e-waste recycling based on a national survey of U.S. households". Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 60: 49–63. doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2011.12.003.
• Ogunseitan, Oladele A. (2008-04-01). Microbial Diversity-Form and Function in Prokaryotes. ISBN 978-1-405-14448-3. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• Ogunseitan, Oladele A. (2011-06-01). Green Health. ISBN 9781412996884.
• Ogunseitan, Oladele A. (2020-01-22). Certification in Public Health (CPH) Q&A Exam Review. ISBN 9780826161857.