Prof. Tanimola Makanjuola Akande

Professor

Epidemology & Community Health

Professor Tanimola Makanjuola AKANDE is a Professor of Public Health at the University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria, and a Consultant Public Health Physician at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital. He is a specialist in Health Management. He was Head of the Department of Epidemiology & Community Health at the University of Ilorin. He was a member World Health Organization (WHO) African Region Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Measles and Rubella. He is a Senior Researcher with the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD). He was at various times a WHO and UNICEF Consultant on Polio eradication, Measles control, and Tetanus Elimination programmes in Nigeria. He is currently a member Board of Directors, Georgetown Global Health Nigeria Ltd (GGHN), Georgetown University Medical Centre; member Scientific Advisory Board, Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium (VIMC) Imperial College London; member of Schmidt-Futures Vaccine Safety and Confidence-Building Working Group (VacSafe) Columbia University; Ex-member of the Governing Council of Bingham University, Karu.

Qualifications

Fellow National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria - 1994
Master in Health Planning and Management, University of Ilorin, 1997
Member, Faculty of Community Health, West African College of Physicians, 1992
Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) – Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1984
Member, Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered) MNIM, 2005

Teaching

Undergraduate

Lectures at 400 Level - Clinical Records
Lecture at 400 level - Doctors Occupation Hazards and Preventive Measures
Lecture at 400 Level - Who is a Doctor & Hippocratic Oath
Lecture at 500 Level - Essential Drug Programme
Lecture at 500 Level on: Organisation of Health Services in Nigeria
Lecture at 500 Level - Ethics in Research and Public Health Practice
Lecture at 500 Level - Health Care Financing
Lecture at 600 Level - Financial Management in Health Care
Clinical Teaching in Clinics and Public Health Field Sites

Postgraduate

Teach MPH Class: ECH 844 - Admin & Org Health Services
Teach MPH Class: ECH 870 - PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH MANAGEMENT
Supervise MPH Research Projects
Teach PhD Public Health (Health management) Courses - ECH 951 Organizational Behaviour; ECH 952 Management of Health Care Organizations, ECH 953 Quality of Health care; ECH 955 Decision Making; ECH 962 Skills and Methods of Health Care Negotiation & Conflict Resolution; ECH 964 Managing Information in Health Care
Supervise PhD Thesis

Publications & Links

Get in Touch

For enquiries or collaborations, please use the contact details below.

Email

akandetm@unilorin.edu.ng

Office Address

3rd Floor, Senior Consultant Building, UITH