[6][7][8] While at CSU as Dean, Balogun established the HIV/AIDS Research and Policy Institute to address the disproportionate incidence and complex burdens of HIV/AIDS in minority populations.

[12] Balogun immigrated to the US in 1980 and earned his master's degree in Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy (1981) and Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology with a Minor in Research Methodology from the University of Pittsburgh[11] in 1985.

[11] Balogun began his career as a physiotherapist in 1978 at Mubi General Hospital where he was deployed for the mandatory one-year National Youth Service and established the first Physiotherapy Department in the defunct Gongola State.

[11] He joined the Kwara State Civil Service as Basic Physiotherapist in 1979 and worked at the General Hospital in Ilorin until 1980 when he left for his postgraduate education in the USA.

He served for six years as Chairman of the Physical Therapy Program (1993–1999) and Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs (1994–1999) at SUNY-HSCB.