As a Creighton University, Associate Vice President, a Professor of Ophthalmology, a Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Dr Sade Kosoko-Lasaki is internationally renowned. In the field of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, she has conducted numerous and excellent research work in Vitamin A Deficiency and Child hood Mortality in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and the Philippines since 1986. In addition, she was a part of a team of researchers that first observed the prevalence of Open Angle Glaucoma in Blacks of African descent in St Lucia, West Indies. Since relocating to Omaha, Nebraska in 2000, Dr Kosoko-Lasaki has initiated in rural and urban Nebraska, the Creighton University Glaucoma Outreach Initiative, the first organized public health screening, and education and referral service for the prevention of blindness. The glaucoma screening outreach program has now expanded to the States of Iowa, Kansas and South Dakota. Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki has built on the success of the screening and education programs by introducing similar programs in the Dominican Republic, the US Virgin Islands and Nigeria. She voluntarily provides surgical interventions and/or training in the different countries. Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki continues to provide a public health service by training other ophthalmologists and primary healthcare workers in the early diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma. 
Dr Kosoko-Lasaki is also a co-founder of the new Creighton University’s Center for Promoting Health and Health Equality CPHHE) www.creighton.edu/health/cphhe/
