Dr. Folasade is a Chief Regulatory Officer at the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Nigeria’s Medicine Regulatory Agency.

While Folasade’s primary role is to implement Quality Management Systems based on WHO and ISO 17025:2017 Standards at the National Quality Control Laboratory, she contributes to the Agency’s compliance with and implementation of the ISO 9001:2015 standards alongside other regulatory system strengthening interventions.

Folasade also serves on the NAFDAC-WHO Global Benchmarking Team. This team was constituted in 2018 to drive implementation and institutionalization of WHO Global Benchmarking Requirements in Nigeria’s regulatory System. Folasade coordinates the Laboratory Testing Function on this project. In 2022, the team’s efforts led to Nigeria attaining the WHO GBT Maturity Level (ML) 3 i.e. status of a stable, well-functioning and integrated regulatory system.

She works on the Technical Working Group of the NAFDAC Traceability Office, supporting the execution of the five-year roadmap for implementing pharmaceutical traceability in Nigeria. Her contributions include development of guidelines, drafting funding concept notes and coordination of nationwide sensitization programs that ensure engagement of key stakeholders across the pharmaceutical supply chain on traceability.

Folasade trained as a Pharmacist at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She has a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) from the University of Western Cape, South Africa and a Master of Public Policy (MPP) from the University of Oxford, UK.