Babalola Faseru, MD, MPH

Research Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine & Public Health

An internationally-trained clinician and researcher, Babalola has landed at KU to study cancer prevention and control, with a focus on nicotine dependence and smoking cessation. His broad goal is to understand the mechanisms underlying health disparities due to tobacco use and other preventable chronic disease risk factors among underserved populations. His current research is focused on the etiology of smoking-related health disparities affecting African-Americans from the perspective of their cigarette preference and their genotype-phenotype variations, and is directing a study on the effects of menthol on bupropion pharmacokinetics. Babalola is also engaged in the third Kick It at Swope project and UKanQuit at KUMed, the hospital smoking cessation service for employees and patients. In addition to his research, Babalola teaches Principles of Epidemiology and mentors medical, public health and research students in epidemiology, international health, public health in developing countries and health disparities research.

MD	Medicine & Surgery	Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
Residency	Community Medicine	University College Hospital, Nigeria
MPH	Public Health (International)	University of Kuopio, Finland
Fellowship	Cancer Research	WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer, France
Fellowship	Postdoctoral	University of Kansas Medical Center
Fellowship	Clinical Research, NIH K30	University of Kansas Medical Center