A Pharmacist and Fellow of the West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists with over twenty years of experience working with the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) across the Enforcement, Medicines Registration, and Establishment Inspection functions of the Agency.
Mrs. Khadijah Ade-Abolade is a public health professional being a Consultant Public Health Pharmacist.
She is a Lead Pharmaceutical Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) Inspector and has led numerous GMP Inspection Teams to assess GMP compliance of domestic and foreign facilities informing regulatory decisions on the facilities and the manufactured products.
She participated in the development of some NAFDAC Regulations and Guidelines including the NAFDAC GMP Regulations and Guidelines, Clinical Trial Regulations and Good Clinical Practice Guidelines as well as ongoing review of these regulatory tools for continued adequacy. She is a Quality Management Systems (QMS) Implementation expert and a member of the NAFDAC Quality Management System Steering Committee being a certified Lead Auditor and Lead Implementer for Quality Management Systems as well as a certified Risk Management Professional.
Khadijah Ade-Abolade is the focal person for NAFDAC in the ongoing efforts in preparation for effective regulation of locally manufactured vaccines in Nigeria. She is a member of the National Technical Working Group for Local Vaccine Manufacturing and lead of the Regulatory Sub-Team in the TWG. She has represented the Agency at several local and international meetings and trainings geared towards preparedness for sustainable local vaccine manufacturing in Nigeria. She also represents the Agency on the International Council for Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) Q1/Q5C Expert Working Group.
She is the pioneer Director of the recently created Vaccines, Biologics & Medical Devices Registration & Regulatory Affairs Directorate of NAFDAC.
