Bosede Afolabi is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos (CMUL), Lagos, Nigeria. Prof. Afolabi’s academic career started at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos (CMUL), from the position of Lecturer II at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, (CMUL) in October 1999, to become a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in November 2016. She is the immediate past Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, CMUL / LUTH, a position she held between August 2018 and July 2021, and is a Member of the Senate of the University of Lagos. She has received 14 awards and fellowships to attend various academic and research trainings in the UK and the USA from various organisations.

Professor Afolabi is the Principal Investigator (PI) of two major grants from the grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one $3.7m USD and one $2.5m USD for a randomised controlled trial of intravenous versus oral iron for the treatment of iron deficiency anemia in postpartum women, and in pregnancy, respectively. She is also the PI of a N38,500,000 (100,000 USD) TETFUND, Nigeria grant for a randomised controlled trial of aspirin for preventing IUGR and preeclampsia in sickle cell pregnancy and a co-Investigator and E-learning coordinator on a $3.2million USD Fogarty/NIH grant for improving research, teaching and mentoring skills in junior and mid-level faculty at her institution.

Her more recent awards include an Eisenhower Fellowship, USA, 2014 (a 60-year-old organization headed by General Colin Powell followed by Secretary Robert Gates) for emerging global leaders involving a 7-week fully sponsored trip to various organisations of interest in the USA. She was featured on CNN African Voices in 2013, a 30-minute program that ‘highlights Africa’s most engaging personalities on the continent and in the diaspora every week’, for her research in sickle cell pregnancy, as well as her teaching, research and efforts towards reducing maternal mortality. She was the 6th Victor Anomah Ngu lecturer at the 53rd Annual Scientific Conference of the West African College of Surgeons in Lome, Togo (2013) where she presented work on her sickle cell doctoral thesis.

Prof. Afolabi graduated as a doctor (MBChB) from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria and got her postgraduate qualifications in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G) from the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (MRCOG), UK, the West African College of Surgeons (FWACS) and the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (FMCOG). She had her O&G training in the United Kingdom and Nigeria. She also obtained a postgraduate doctorate in Medicine (DM) in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from the University of Nottingham, UK in 2011 for a doctoral thesis. She sits on the Board of Kesington Adebukunola Adebutu Foundation (KAAF) Laboratory and Maternity Centre and Paelon Memorial Hospital, Lagos. She is a Board Member and Chair of the Accreditation committee of the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ekiti State.