Adegoke Falade is Professor of paediatric respiratory medicine at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, in Ibadan, Nigeria, he also serve as an honorary consultant paediatrician to the University College Hospital in Ibadan. His main interest is in the field of pneumonia and asthma.
As a research clinician at the MRC Laboratories, The Gambia, Professor Falade explored the interface between childhood malnutrition and respiratory diseases. The work in this field culminated in a successfully defended Doctor of Medicine (MD) Thesis in 1999 titled: Pneumonia in Malnourished Gambian Children. Professor Falade was an investigator in Nigeria in the International Study of Asthma and Allergy in Childhood (ISAAC), an international multicentre collaborative epidemiological study. The findings obtained from the Nigerian contribution, is in record, as the first available prevalence data for these diseases in Nigeria.
Republic Day Honorees | Charmaine Gauci, public health czar, made Officer of Order of Merit
Cardinal Mario Grech, Prof. Charmaine Gauci and pathologist Christopher Barbara, Brigadier Jeffrey Curmi, and Gozitan band The Tramps honoured in Republic Day honours list
13 December 2020, 12:20pm
by Matthew Vella
On Republic Day each year, the President, on behalf of the government and people of Malta, pays public tribute to a number of Maltese citizens who distinguish themselves in different fields of endeavour, by appointing them to the National Order of Merit or to the Xirka Ġieħ ir-Repubblika, or by awarding them the Midalja għall-Qlubija or the Midalja għall-Qadi tar-Repubblika.