About Me
Dr. Babalola Faseru is a Professor of Population Health, Family Medicine, and Community Health at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) and Consultant Medical Epidemiologist at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). He received his Medical Degree from Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria and obtained his Master of Public Health from the University of Kuopio (Eastern Finland) in Finland with a Cancer Research Fellowship award from the WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France. He worked as a researcher at the Environmental Epidemiology Division of the National Public Health Institute in Finland before his appointment at KUMC where he did a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Nicotine Dependence and Smoking Cessation and another NIH K30 Fellowship in Clinical Epidemiology before his faculty appointment. He is a full member of the University of Kansas Cancer Center and the Director of the Tobacco Treatment Education program at the University of Kansas. He has served as a Faculty Advisor to over 40 KU medical students posted to 15 countries on international health electives. He received Excellence in Public Health Teaching awards in 2011, 2014, and 2022.
He is a Fellow of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) and he received the Murray Goldstein Commemorative Lectureship award in Public Health and Preventive Medicine from the American Osteopathic College of Occupational and Preventive Medicine and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) Lectureship Award in Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation. Dr. Faseru has served on the Executive Board of Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance use and Addiction (AMERSA) and on the Program Committees of IASLC World Conferences and the Annual Meetings of the SRNT, SBM and AMERSA. He was a section head of the SRNT Global Certification Program Curriculum Review Board. He currently serves as a member of the Kansas Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant Advisory Committee, Kansas Cancer Partnership steering committee and the Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition board. He serves on NIH study sections, Council for Tobacco Treatment Training Programs (CTTTP) and National Certification Commission for Addiction Professionals Nicotine Dependence Specialist Task Force. He is the Lead Section Editor of the Epidemiology and Prevention Section of the Seventh Edition of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Principles of Addiction Medicine. He is a member of Council of Science Editors, the editorial board of Contemporary Clinical Trials, Journal of Community Medicine and Primary Health Care, and he is the Deputy Editor of Substance Use and Addiction Journal.