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Folasade Tolulope Ogunsola, Ph.D., FNAMed, FAMedS, FAS, has been a medical doctor and professor of clinical microbiology since 2008. She is Vice Chancellor of the , Nigeria. Her research interest has centered mainly on diagnosing and preventing infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance. She has worked extensively on understanding the epidemiology and ecology of resistant organisms in the hospital environment and preventing their transmission to patients and staff. She has also worked extensively in the community, especially in HIV and tuberculosis prevention for slum dwellers. She has worked at different times, since 2003, with the World Health Organization on infection prevention and control programs and has been deployed to assist with Ebola epidemics. She is a member of the Africa Task Force for Novel Coronavirus (AFCOR) and was on the Lagos State Think Tank for COVID-19. She currently serves as a member of the World Health Organization Stag-IH (Strategic and Advisory Group on Infectious Hazards) with epidemic and pandemic potential and is on the Expert Review Committee on Polio Eradication and Routine Immunization in Nigeria.

Ogunsola is actively involved in healthcare manpower development. She was the PI of the NIH-funded program BRAINS (Building Research and Innovation in Nigeria’s Sciences) to develop research capacity in junior faculty. She has mentored over 65 M.Sc. students and supervised and co-supervised 10 Ph.D. students and 12 specialist doctors. She has published over 145 articles in peer-reviewed journals nationally and internationally. She is presently the director of the Centre for Infection Control and Patient Safety.