Oladele Adebayo Ajose (20 September 1907 – 2 July 1978) was a Lagos prince who was the vice-chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University.
He later moved abroad and went to study at the University of Glasgow from 1927 to 1932, graduating MB ChB in 1932, taking the Diploma in Public Health in 1935 and proceeding to a MD in 1939.
He believed that public health issues should not only be limited to the rooms of academia but be brought to communities.
There, he made sure the community was involved in every step of decision making and choice of health care service.
The establishment of fish ponds around swamps later led to the creation of means of eradicating schistosomiasis[13] in Ilora and also introduced a framework for nutrition provision in Nigeria and Africa.