Olle Hansson Award 2008
The Olle Hansson Award 2008 goes to Professor A F B Mabadeje from Nigeria.
Dr Mabadeje received his MBBS (London) in 1963. His postgraduate education was in Cardiff, London and in Manchester. He also obtained a Diploma in Clinical Pharmacology from the University of Manchester, a MRCP (Edinburgh) in 1967 and a FRCP in 1979. He began teaching at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos and the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) in August 1968 and was appointed Professor of Clinical Pharmacology in 1979.
A WHO traveling fellow in 1973, Dr Mabadeje worked with the Departments of Clinical Pharmacology, at the University of Rochester, New York and at the University of San Francisco, California, USA. He spent a year at the University of Tennessee Medical Centre in Memphis in 1976. He was a Commonwealth Fellow at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, in the University of London in 1985-1986.
Dr Mabadeje held a number of clinical and administrative responsibilities both within and outside the University of Lagos and participated in the clinical trials of new drugs and, in the training of medical and pharmacy students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He was the Chairman of the LUTH Pharmacy Committee when the Hospital Essential Drugs List and Formulary were introduced. He has been the Coordinator of the Nigeria Group of the International Network for Rational Use of Drugs (INRUD) since its establishment in 1989. Dr Mabadeje participated in various field studies that INRUD undertook in different member countries, leading to several publications. Some of the joint publications are;
- How to Investigate Drug Use in Health Facilities.
- Field Tests for Rational Drug Use in 12 Developing Countries, and
- Impact of a Short Course in Pharmacotherapy for Undergraduate Medical Students: An International Multicentre Study.
Active in drawing attention to Adverse Drug Reactions, Dr Mabadeje has over 60 publications in local and international journals and has presented papers at more than 60 national and international conferences on the concepts of essential drugs and their rational use.
The Olle Hansson Award is given to recognise the work of an individual from a developing country who best demonstrates the qualities of activist Olle Hansson, in promoting the rational use of drugs.