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Submitted by ao.coker on September 5, 2023
    Name:AKINWALE OLADOTUN COKER
    Designation: PROFESSOR
    Academic Qualification: B.Sc. (Ibadan), M.Sc. (Ife), Ph.D. (Ibadan) M.N.S.E., M.INEnv, Reg. Engr. (COREN)
    Faculty: Technology
    Department: Civil
    Phone number: +234-8033644074+234-8092150892
     

    Email: cokerwale@yahoo.com   

    Alternate Email Address 1: oladotunc@gmail.com

    Area of Specialisation: Water Resources & Environmental Engineering
     

    Current Research Activities:
    1. Remanufacture: A Strategy to Enable Affordable Quality Healthcare in Developing Countries.
    2. Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies.
    3. Development of A limited Contact Patient-Posture Change Mechanism for Efficient Management of critically ill Patients.
    4. Development of a Low-Cost Automated Adaptable Handwashing Device for Prevention of the Spread of Communicable Diseases.
    5. HIV DNA/RNA RT-LAMP Detection.
    6. Climate Change and Health.
    7. Water Resources Management
    8. Waste-to Wealth
    9. Waste-to- Energy
    10. Science, Technology, Engineering
    Research Grants:
    1. Chevron Corporate Grant for Scaling Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies Invention Education in Nigeria (2023 - 2024, Role: UI Site PI).
    2. Grant on HIV DNA/RNA RT-LAMP Detection, awarded by the Institute of Global Health, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA (2022 - 2024, Role: UI Site Co - PI).
    3. Grant awarded by the University of Ibadan to design and fabricate non-contact handwashing devices for use in the University during the COVID-19 epidemic. (2020 - 2021, Role: PI)
    4. COVID-19 Grant awarded by the Institute of Global Health, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA. (2021 - 2023, Role: UI Site PI).
    5. Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies (NEST) Grant, awarded by consortium of MacArthur Foundation, Gates Foundation, Children Investment Fund Foundation, Lemelson Foundations, ELMA Philanthropies and others (2019 - 2028, Role: UI Site PI).
    6. The C-THAN Grant awarded by National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering by USA-based National Institutes of Health (NIH), (2019 - 2028, Role: UI Site PI).
    7. Remanufacture Grant awarded by the Royal Society, UK (2018 - 2024, Role: UI SIte PI).
    8. The Urban Research Nigeria Grant awarded by the Department for International Development (DFID) of the UK government (2015 - 2017, Role: UI Site PI)
    9. Framework Biomedical Engineering Grant awarded by the Fogarty International Center, NIH, USA (2013 - 2018, Role: UI Site PI)
    10. The Grant of British Council and the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (2010 - 2012, Role: UI Site PI).
    11. Senate Research Grant, Mission Research Grant, MacArthur Foundation Grant (all given by the University of Ibadan between 1995 and 2002).

    Total amount of these grants is about 75million US Dollars with appreciable percentage of the fund being managed at the University of Ibadan.
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