Oladele A. Ogunseitan, PhD, professor of population health and disease prevention with the UCI Program in Public Health, has been elected as a Fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini, an independent, international academy that examines critical issues in occupational and environmental medicine with a view toward action to prevent disease and promote health.
Fellowship in the Collegium is limited to 180 members globally, currently distributed across about 40 countries. Ogunseitan joins this select group of members who are renowned individually for their distinguished contributions.
Ogunseitan is one of the field’s preeminent researchers on the impacts of electronic waste on population health, environment, and planetary health. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the British Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. He was recently appointed to the World Health Organization’s Committee to address public health and emergency response.
