The Governing Council of Christland University, Owode-Abeokuta, has appointed Professor Oyedunni Sola Arulogun of the Department of Health Promotion and Education, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan as the new Vice Chancellor of the institution.
The new VC, the first female Professor of Health Promotion and Education, and the first female to become the Dean of the Faculty of Public Health in UI, who resumed on November 1, 2024, succeeded Professor Chinedum Peace Babalola of the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Ibadan.
Immediate past Christland University VC, Professor Chinedum Peace Babalola Handing over to Prof Oyedunni Sola Arulogun
Arulogun, who has over 140 publications to her credit is a foremost health promotion and education specialist with over 20 years of experience at the nation’s Premier University.
She obtained B.Ed (Hons) Special Education (1987), M.Ed Special Education (1989), MPH (MPH), Health Education (1992), and PhD Health Education (1998), all from the University of Ibadan.
She has a broad background in speech pathology/audiology and health promotion and education with specific training and expertise in speech rehabilitation after stroke, delayed speech development in children, qualitative studies, community engagement activities, capacity building and mentoring.
Arulogun also received training at the Margaret Sanger Institute South Africa, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Galilee International Management Institute Israel and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA.
Arulogun is a Fellow Royal Society of Public Health UK, Fellow African Institute of Public Health and Fellow Institute of Classical Entrepreneurship, Nigeria.
Arulogun is an avid researcher of international repute. She has served as Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on several internally and externally funded projects and grants including MacArthur Foundation, World Health Organization, Unilever, National Institute of Health (NIH), National Agency for Control of AIDS (NACA), World Bank, University of Ibadan Senate Research Grant and Bill and Melinda Gates supported University of Ibadan Centre for Reproductive Health.
She possesses excellent administrative, verbal communication and writing skills along with constructive and effective teaching methods that promote a stimulating learning environment.
She is the Chairperson Oyo State Advisory Committee on Neglected Tropical Diseases (OYSACON) (2016 – Date). She assumed office as the Director of the University of Ibadan Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation on May 20, 2019, for a term of three years. She was re-appointed for a second term of three years starting from May 20, 2022.
Her research interests include the reproductive health of adolescents with a bias for the disabled, gender, stroke studies, child survival strategies, tropical diseases, and health promotion through a health system approach all of which embrace community-based interventions to influence behaviour change.
Arulogun belongs to many professional bodies such as the Speech Pathology and Audiology Association of Nigeria (SPAAN), the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE). She is a Licentiate of the Nigerian Medical Rehabilitation Therapists Board.
