Professor Cadmus is a veterinarian, a front-line scientist in the diagnostics and molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in Africa. He is a Professor of Veterinary Public Health and the immediate past Director of the Centre for Control and Prevention of Zoonoses (CCPZ) at the University of Ibadan. He is the Team Lead of the Damien Foundation Centre for Genomics and Global Health at the University of Ibadan.
His research interests include the epidemiology and molecular studies of tuberculosis, brucellosis, other zoonotic and infectious diseases at the human-animal-environment interface, disease surveillance, and One Health.
He was a member of the Expert Committee in 2017 that produced the “Road Map for Zoonotic Tuberculosis” (a document of WHO, FAO, OIE and The Union that addressed major health and economic impacts of zoonotic TB. He founded TIMOHI (The Ibarapa Meje One Health Initiative), a One Health initiative in Nigeria towards addressing endemic, emerging and remerging zoonotic/infectious diseases at the human-animal-environment interface.
Prof Cadmus is a recipient of several local and international grants, including the Fogarty, John D. and Catherine T MacArthur, TETfund, CRDF-USA, IDRC and EU grants, among others.
He is currently the Co-PI for the West African One Health (WAOH) Actions Projects funded by the IDRC in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria. This year, with other researchers from Europe and Africa, his team won an EU-HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-funded grant on a project titled: Tuberculosis Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (TASP): tackling Bedaquiline-resistant tuberculosis, where he is the Nigerian Principal Investigator.
Currently, he and his team of researchers are exploring the roles of ecology and climate change to investigate the emergence and re-emergence of priority zoonotic and infectious diseases in Nigeria, including Lassa fever, Mpox and other vector-borne diseases.
Professor Cadmus is a reviewer for over 30 local and international journals, including The Lancet and Review Editor for the BMC series and Frontiers. He also served as the Pro-gramme Secretary and Chairman of the Zoonotic TB sub-Section of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (2018-2022).
Prof Cadmus has published over 120 publications in highly reputable journals, including 5 Book Chapters. His Google scholar citation-4158; h-index-33 and i10 index-78.
Prof Cadmus is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science