Joseph A. Balogun - Healthcare Education in Nigeria: Evolutions and Emerging Paradigms

Joseph Abiodun Balogun, FAS, is a Distinguished University Professor in the College of Health Sciences at Chicago State University (CSU), USA; Emeritus Professor of Physiotherapy, and Associate Director of Research Development and Innovation at the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo City, Nigeria; and Visiting Professor/Program Consultant at the Centre of Excellence in Reproductive Health and Innovation, University of Benin, Nigeria. He is the Founder and President/CEO of Joseph Rehabilitation Center, a social service organization at Tinley Park, Illinois, USA, that provides community-integrated living arrangement services for adults with physical, developmental, and intellectual disabilities.

Professor Balogun obtained his Bachelor of Science (Honors) degree in physiotherapy in 1977 from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He earned a Masters degree in orthopedic and sports physical therapy (1981) and a PhD in exercise physiology (cardiac rehabilitation) with a minor in research methodology from the University of Pittsburgh (1985). He has held full-time and administrative positions at various universities around the world Russell Sage College, Troy, New York; Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria; University of Florida, Gainesville; Texas Womans University, Houston; the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn (SUNY-HSCB). He also held a visiting faculty position at Barry University, Florida, and King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He served for 13 years (19992013) as dean of the College of Health Sciences at CSU, where he established seven academic programs and the HIV/AIDS Research and Policy Institute to address the disproportionate incidence and complex burdens of HIV/AIDS in minority populations. He also served for six years as chairman of the Department of Physical Therapy (19931999) and associate dean for student academic affairs (19941999) at SUNY-HSCB; consultant physiotherapist (19881991) and vice-dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at OAU (19901991).

Professor Balogun has contributed to knowledge in physical therapy, cardiovascular epidemiology, ergonomics, and HIV behavioral research. He has authored 2 books, 17 book chapters, monographs, and technical compendia, over 150 full articles, and 24 peer-reviewed conference abstracts and proceedings. In 2015, he delivered the third Christopher Ajaos keynote address at the 55th annual conference of the Nigeria Society of Physiotherapy. In 2017, he presented the second distinguished guest lecture at the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo City, Nigeria.