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Meet Pharm. Adebisi Yusuff Adebayo, B.Pharm (First Class Honors); the first Nigerian Undergraduate Student to be called a Professor.

He is the Director for Research at Global Health Focus, an organisation that seeks to build critical thinkers and leaders in global health towards achieving health-related Sustainable Development Goals.

He is also: the Director for Research and Innovation at the African Young Leaders for Global Health, Coordinator at AB Global Health Initiative, Co-founder and Executive Director at Pharmacostory (a community of young leaders dedicated to health promotion), and the Director of Healthy Nations Initiative (a community empowerment think-tank aimed at improving access to health information.

ProfRx as he is popularly called was inducted into the Pharmacy Profession by the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) yesterday, graduating with Distinctions (First Class Honors). This, to many is totally astonishing though inspirational to students out there because of how well-involved Adebisi is in many extra-curricular activities and his achievements throughout his stay in the University.

Adebisi is a global health enthusiast, drug policy advocate, research enthusiast, and public health educator. He has published over 50 articles (in different international peer-reviewed journals) in the areas of global health and public health, with more than 200 Google Scholar Citations as an undergraduate.

He has presented (as author/co-author) various research publications in many local and intentional conferences. His team won the 2018 Innovate4AMR global competition organised by World Health Organization, John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, South Centre, ReAct -Action on Antibiotics Resistance and the International Federation of Medical Students' Association.

Pharm. Adebisi Yusuff Adebayo is also a Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene UK Ambassador, Tobacco Harm Reduction Scholar for Knowledge-Action-Change London, drug policy and harm reduction advocate at Student for Sensible Drug Policy Washington D.C, United States. He was awarded the National Institute of Health Research UK and RSTMH grant to carry out a project on risk communication and community engagement strategies, surveillance and laboratory testing capacity for COVID-19 in selected African countries.

Elucidated below are some of his achievements:
-Winner, 2018 Innovate for Antimicrobial Resistance (Innovate4AMR) Global Competition
-Delegate, 2017 World Healthcare Students Symposium, Kigali, Rwanda
-Nominee, Pharmanews Pharmacy Student of the Year Award in 2019
-Recipient, PharmaLead Award of Excellence (2019)
-Delegate, 22nd International AIDS Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2018)
-Delegate and Representative of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the first International Lassa Fever Conference Abuja, Nigeria (2019)
-Panelist , 2019 edition of the Global Forum on Nicotine, Warsaw, Poland
-2019 recipient of Knowledge-Action-Change Harm Reduction Grant.
-2020 RSTMH NIHR small grant awardee for COVID-19 research and many more.

Congratulations Pharm Adebisi!

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Congratulations young chap

Cc: lalasticlala

wow
He really tried congrats bro

God please Grant him long life to explore more ....this guy am seeing hmmmmmm

Congrats to him,he's the real redpill.Nairaland redpillers come and see ooo

Good boy

We Are Proud Of U,
But Covid 19 Never Reach Your Lab?

Congratulations

Brainy.

Congrats to him,

News like dis dnt make FP
But if na one useless bbn news now
With only 2 or 3 comments we go don see am fr FP

Wow! I hope he gets a better job outside this country. Quota system no go let this one make way for this country.

Omo.

Foreign companies don book this one already

I drop cap for him

this what we ought to be celebrating as a country

Congratulations brother

More wins

This one naa book ooo. Before I could publish one academic paper as an undergraduate. it wasn't easy.

Welcome to the profession of Noble men. Congratulations colleague we will join hands and move our profession forward.

The guy should leave this country before the system will frustrate him

Chii59:
Wow! I hope he gets a better job outside this country. Quota system no go let this one make way for this country.

Quota system as what exactly?

Welcome to the profession of Noble men. Congratulations colleague we will join hands and move our profession forward.

To a few individuals, understanding complex concepts in their chosen field is almost as easy as a child playing with sand on the beach. Kudos to him for achieving such feat in his chosen playground. Congratulations Adebisi Yusuff Adebayo — the world is your oyster!

What an ACHIEVEMENT!
Greater heights and upliftment in his life and that of our noble Pharmacy profession.

But op, take NOTE! Pharmacy is an unclassified degree. Nothing like first class or second class

This one is a genius. His CV is going to be about 20 pages.

the funny thing about school is that with all these ovation some students might not know him or heard about him, even in his level.

johnkey:
the funny thing about school is that with all these ovation some students might not know him or heard about him, even in his level.

...even our lecturers respect him very much. Rx welldone

Phenomenal!!! Congratulations champ. Keep winning

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Bravo bravo

Quite impressed.

More grease to his elbows

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Wow!Impressive feat.What a rare gem.