Olanike Adeyemo  Olanike Kudirat Adeyemo, is a Nigerian professor of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine at University of Ibadan. She is the current Deputy Vice Chancellor (research, innovation and strategic partnership), the first person to attain the role at the University. Her research areas are on Aquatic toxicology, Aquatic veterinary medicine and fish food safety. Adeyemo's research is focused on Aquatic and Wildlife Epidemiology and Toxicology, Food Safety and Global Public Health. She has linked ecotoxicology to epidemiology of diseases in fish and wildlife and public health risk associated with food safety and contact with infectious diseases. In 2011, Adeyemo was appointed an epidemiological and toxicological expert on the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee (JECFA). In 2019 she was named a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries, a Fellow at the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Mitigation. In 2016, she was named a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. In 2012, she was named a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. In 2010, she was named a Fellow of the African Scientific Institute (California, USA) and listed in ASI's 2011 edition of “Black Achievers in Science and Technology. In 2007 she was named a Fellow of the Eisenhower Fellowship Program and in 2002 she was named a Fellow of the Leadership for Environment and Development program in the UK. Adeyemo was born 17 July 1970 to a family from Oyo State. She had her secondary education at Ahmadiyya Grammar School, obtaining her West African Examination Council results in 1986. She got her first degree in Veterinary Medicine from University of Ibadan in 1994. She also obtained her masters and doctorate degrees from the same institution in 1998 and 2005 respectively. She was made an associate professor in 2008, but became a full professor in 2011. She is a member of several professional bodies including Society of Toxicology, World Aquatic Veterinary Medical Association, Wildlife Disease Association, Nigerian Academy of Science. Adeyemo is married to a pharmacist, and has three sons and one daughter. In March 2017, Adeyemo was elected into the newly created office of Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Strategic Partnership. Previously, she was the head of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine department. Adeyemo is the first Nigerian woman in the field of Aquatic Veterinary medicine. Speaking to "The Punch" on the manly nature of her discipline, she described herself as not being woman-like, explaining that she gets along better with men.