Oladele Ogunseitan

Oladele (Dele) Ogunseitan holds the University of California Presidential Chair at UC Irvine, where he is a Professor and served for more than a decade as founding chair of the Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention. 

Dele leads the Training and Empowerment objective for USAID’s One Health Workforce|Next Generation project in more than 100 universities in 17 countries across Africa and Southeast Asia. In addition, he directs the education initiatives for the systemwide University of California Global Health Institute; and he directs workforce development for NIH-funded Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. He is Co-director of Apple Inc.’s Green Chemistry Advisory Board and Co-director of Lincoln Dynamic Foundation’s World Institute for Sustainable Development of Materials (WISDOM). 

Dele is an alumni faculty fellow in Global Environmental Assessments at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. In 2016, he received the Jefferson Science Fellowship from the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. In 2018, he received a meritorious honor award from the U.S. Department of State for exceptional teamwork and contributions to the successful achievement of U.S. goals at the third United Nations Environment Assembly. 

He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected in two different sections, Medical Sciences and Societal Impacts of Science and Technology, for distinguished contributions in studies using fundamental science to inform impacts of toxic components in manufacturing on human and environmental health with significant societal impacts. His articles have appeared in Science, Nature, The Lancet Global Health, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, and Environment International.