Kafilat Bawa-Allah

About

Kafilat Adebola Bawa-Allah PhD, is an environmental toxicologist with over nine years of research experience. Her research area of specialization is aquatic toxicology with interests in heavy metal toxicity and bioavailability in polluted ecosystems. She has carried out several studies which assessed the ecological risks associated with heavy metal pollution in lagoon ecosystems and others which focused on developing cell-based systems that can serve as viable in vitro methods for toxicological studies in both freshwater and saltwater ecosystems. Dr Bawa-Allah is a recipient of several awards including the Commonwealth Rutherford Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission which she recently completed at King’s College London. She has mentored several undergraduate and postgraduate students during her academic career and currently has over twenty publications in reputable peer review journals.

Employment

• University of Lagos Lecturer
  2013 - Present

Education

• University of Lagos Ph.d Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Management
  2011 - 2015
• University of Lagos MSc Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Management
  2010 - 2010
• University of Lagos BS.c (Hons) Zoology
  2003 - 2007

Projects & Funding

• Fish Gill Epithelia as Prototypes for assessing Fish Response to Heavy Metal Exposure Faculty of Science. University of Lagos
  2014 - 2014

Publications (13)

• Predicting Metal Bioavailability and Risk of Toxicity in Nigerian Surface Waters: Are the Existing User-Friendly Bioavailability Tools Applicable?
  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 2022 DOI: 10.1002/etc.5429
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• Assessing the potential toxicity of paint industry effluents to aquatic organisms using the whole effluent testing (WET) approach
  Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-022-09832-w
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• Cultured Rainbow Trout Gill Epithelium as an in vitro method for Marine Ecosystem Toxicological Studies
  Heliyon 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08018
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• Facilitated depuration of hazardous non-essential elements in pre-exposed fish
  International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s13762-020-02734-9
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• Preliminary evaluation of COVID-19 disease outcomes, test capacities and management approaches among African countries
  2020 DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.16.20103838
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• Differential toxicities of anionic and nonionic surfactants in fish
  Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-08212-6
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• COVID-19 pandemic: examining the faces of spatial differences in the morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and USA
  2020 DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.20.20072322
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• Acute toxicity and adverse effects of aqueous and ethanol extracts of Parkia biglobosa pods on biochemical parameters of Clarias gariepinus
  African Journal of Aquatic Science 2019 DOI: 10.2989/16085914.2018.1559794
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• Heavy Metal Pollution Monitoring in Vulnerable Ecosystems: A Case Study of the Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria.
  Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology 2018 DOI: 10.1007/s00128-018-2314-8
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• Integrated assessment of the heavy metal pollution status and potential ecological risk in the Lagos Lagoon, South West, Nigeria
  Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal 2018 DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2017.1384694
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• Environmental monitoring of urban streams using a primary fish gill cell culture system (FIGCS)
  Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 2015 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2015.06.012
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• Effects of Lead and Zinc on The Proximate Composition of Post Juvenile Clarias Gariepinus
  International Journal of Nutrition and Food Sciences 2013 DOI: 10.11648/j.ijnfs.20130202.12
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• Toxicological Effects of Lead and Zinc on the Antioxidant Enzyme Activities of Post Juvenile Clarias gariepinus
  Resources and Environment 2012 DOI: 10.5923/j.re.20120201.03
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