OYAPERO AFOLABI A

Preventive Dentistry

Department of Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Lagos State University College of Medicine, 1-5 Oba Akinjobi Way, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos State.

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1. Society for Research in Nicotine and Tobacco International Travel Award winner, San Antonio, Texas, USA, March 1-4, 2023 ---- 2023
2. The College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) International Travel Award winner, June 21-24, 2021. ---- 2021
3. Educational Development award Scholarship, HIV Research for Prevention (HIVR4P), South Africa. ---- 2021
4. Full Scholarship, 23rd International AIDS Conference, San Francisco, USA, 2020. ---- 2020
5. 11. The College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) International Travel Award winner, June 22-24, 2020. ---- 2020
6. Global Bridges Collaborator’s Full Scholarship for Mayo Clinic Nicotine Dependence Center’s, Rochester, TTS training.-2019. ---- 2019
7. 9. Outstanding Keynote Speaker award-Society for Advancement of Science in Africa Annual International Scientific Conference, University of Toronto, 2019. Characteristics, Demographic Factors and Predictors of Oropharyngeal Cancer Knowledge and Risk Perception among Road Transport Workers in Lagos State, Nigeria- 2019. ---- 2019
8. 8. International Infection Control Federation 2019 Full Scholarship Recipient: Afolabi Oyapero, Lagos State University, Nigeria. Oral presentation of abstract: Hand hygiene perception and practices among nursing students in Lagos State- Quebec, Canada. ---- 2019
9. Award winning Co-author- Public Health, Disease and Development in Africa (Routledge Publishers) ---- 2018
10. 2nd Best Graduating Student for MPH Degree- Lagos State University ---- 2014
11. Prize : Novartis/ Nigerian Journal of Clinical Medicine Award- First Prize for Best Research Award ---- 2014
12. Prize : Novartis/ Nigerian Journal of Clinical Medicine Award- First Prize for Best Research Award ---- 2012
13. Novartis/ Nigerian Journal of Clinical Medicine Award- First Prize for Best Research Award ---- 2011

#	Certificate	School	Year
1	Association for the Treatment of Tobacco use and Dependence, USA	Association for the Treatment of Tobacco use and Dependence, USA	2020
2	Tobacco Treatment Specialist Certification	Mayo Clinic - Nicotine Dependence Center, Rochester, MN, USA	2020
3	Smoking Cessation Research Certificate	Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, USA	2019
4	Tobacco and Public health: From theory to Practice	Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, Canada.	2019
5	Global Tobacco Control: Learning from the Experts Course.	John Hopkins Bloomberg school of Public Health, USA	2019
6	Fellowship of Medical College In Dental Surgery (FMCDS)	National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria.	2015
7	Master of Public health (MPH)	Community Health and Primary Health Care/ Lagos State University.	2008
8	Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS)	University of Lagos	1999

Dr Oyapero Afolabi is a Dental Public Health Specialist who obtained distinction and credits at every level in his undergraduate preclinical and clinical training. He also obtained a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree and he is a Fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria. He is also a Mayo Clinic certified Tobacco cessation Treatment Specialist. He has had employment and collaboration experience with Ministries of health, Universities, Teaching Hospitals, Federal government agencies and with international bodies in nations including Nigeria, Japan, Canada, Germany, and the United States of America and with establishments such as the Global bridges of the Mayo Clinic; The John Hopkins Bloomberg school of Public Health; the Ontario Tobacco Research unit; the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and the University of Iowa.
He is presently a Senior Lecturer and an Honorary Consultant in the Faculty of Dentistry of the Lagos State University and the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital and he is also the Head of the Faculty of Dentistry Research and Services Centre of LASUCOM. Afolabi has published over 70 full-length peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and is a coauthor of two textbooks. He has also written 2 published policy documents including the Lagos State Oral health Policy and the Policy on mandatory oral health screening for adolescents in Lagos state High schools. He has attended over 60 local and international scientific conferences and he presented papers at over 25 of such conferences. He is skilled in Preventive Dentistry, epidemiology, tobacco control, policy drafting, public health program planning and evaluation. He has held positions in professional organizations and has won many distinctions, scholarships and awards.