Christianah Mojisola Adeyeye

Prof Christianah Mojisola Adeyeye is the Director General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) where she has added strong governance structure, regulatory system strengthening, and strengthening of the local pharmaceutical companies through international best practices with emphasis on local manufacturing. This has resulted in attainment of ISO 9001-2015 in 2019 and yearly re-certification, and WHO Maturity Level 3 (ISO 9004) in 2022, and recognition as a well-functioning Agency.  Consequent to these is the gradual strengthening of the pharmaceutical industry as exemplified in the recent WHO prequalification of a pediatric product of a local manufacturer, the first in West and Central Africa. The paradigm shift for access to medicines included the introduction of innovative reforms such as the 5+5 policy, the expansion of NAFDAC’s ceiling list to thirty-four (34) products (aimed at increasing access to quality medicine through local manufacturing), new policy on establishment of Pharmaceutical Plants in Nigeria, the centralized GMP inspection for Pharma plants and Good Distribution Practice (GDP) inspection. The ongoing transformative leadership is reflective in the strengthening of grassroot pharmacovigilance or post-marketing safety monitoring, expansion of risk-based post marketing surveillance,  introduction of Dossier Management System (an online solution that streamlines the dossier), leading in Africa the development and use of Traceability Information System – a GS1-drriven technology – to give COVID-19 vaccines and ATM commodities’ supply chain visibility and mitigate substandard and falsified medicines, as part of restructuring toward  ML4 and WLA status. She leads the Agency in strengthening of the Food industry in the Agency through emphasis on Food Safety, evidence-based Chemicals and Pesticides Management. She is the past Chair of Steering Committee of African Medicine Regulatory Harmonization and current Chair of Pediatric Regulatory Network. She is Professor Emeritus at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where she ended her thirty-year academic career, a significant portion of which took place at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA USA.  She has mentored numerous MS, PhD graduate students and published over 65 peer-review research articles and 160 research presentations.