Fola Oluwasina
Biography
Fola Oluwasina received his Ph.D. in Public Health. He worked and received his postdoctoral training at the University of Alberta where he used insights from patient-based data to reveal pathways that are associated with psychosis, anxiety, suicide, depression, burnout, depersonalization, emotional exhaustion, interpersonal disengagement and other stress-related health disorders with the aim to discover novel therapeutic mechanisms for treating diseases.
Prior to that, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology and a Master of Public Health.
His research primarily focuses on health innovations that expand access to quality mental health care among African, Black and Caribbean communities and address the lack of access to healthcare and psychological therapies for patients with depression and anxiety including long wait times to access services and geographical barriers for patients in under-served remote locations.
He has been teaching since 2010 and his major areas of teaching are biology, human physiology and pathophysiology, microbiology, anatomy, chronic diseases, virology, communicable and non-communicable diseases and many more areas in microbiology and public Health.
Education
- Ph.D. (Public Health), University of Alberta
- M.PH. (Epidemiology), University of Alberta
- B.Sc. (Microbiology), University of Alberta