Affiliated Institution and location: Kaduna State University
Dr. Lawal is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Management, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kaduna State University, Nigeria. She has over nine (9) years teaching experience, with additional administrative roles and responsibilities. She has a broad background in clinical pharmacy with key research interests in patient safety, health services research, and mixed methods research.
She currently serves as the principal investigator for an Institutional Based Research (IBR) grant on utilisation of community pharmacies in enhancing primary healthcare services in Kaduna state, Nigeria, which is funded by the Nigerian Tertiary Education Trust Fund Institutional Based Research (TETFund IBR). In 2023, she participated at the 1st Healthcare Innovation Week organized by the Africa Center for Population Health and Policy (ACEPHAP), Bayero University Kano where she pitched an idea on household waste medicine disposal program through the use of community pharmacies, for which she received a seed grant prize. Additionally, she is a co-investigator on a TETFund National Research Fund (NRF) for a research to investigate and develop herbal anti- breast cancer agents from medicinal plants used in north-western Nigeria.
She is a member of the Pharmacy Scholars Initiative (PSI), a mentorship group that supports research activities.
Orcid Number: 0000-0003-1975-0648