Dr. Sade Kosoko-Lasaki has built collaborative relationships worldwide and serves as a community/academic leader in the Omaha, Nebraska area. Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki led the office of Health Sciences Multicultural and Community Affairs, with programs like the Health Careers Opportunity Program, Cultural Awareness seminars and Health Disparities Initiatives with a focus on Community-based Participatory Research (2000-2024). Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki also oversaw the recruitment of disadvantaged students to the health sciences, and mentored the students to retain them. Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki has lectured nationally and internationally on cultural proficiency and health disparity issues, focusing on the promotion of "pipeline programs" that prepare and support disadvantaged students from grade 4 through health professional schools so they can become successful health care providers.
As an ophthalmologist with a public health degree, Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki is passionate about training and educating individuals in developing countries on glaucoma and blindness prevention, specifically Vitamin-A deficiency; the leading cause of preventable blindness in children and a major public health problem throughout the world. She has served as a consultant to UNICEF, USAID, and Helen Keller International in Burkina Faso, Niger, Mauritania, Chad, and the Philippines. Since 1986, Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki has researched the prevalence of glaucoma in Blacks in St. Lucia, West Indies. With a focus on detecting and treating glaucoma- the most common cause of blindness in African Americans and Hispanics-- she has initiated health fairs and screenings throughout Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, U S West Indies and the Dominican Republic. Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki created a program for blindness prevention entitled, "Preventing Glaucoma Blindness in Nebraska: A Creighton University Initiative," targeting individuals at risk for glaucoma blindness in surrounding areas.
As an ophthalmologist with a public health degree, Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki is passionate about training and educating individuals in developing countries on glaucoma and blindness prevention, specifically Vitamin-A deficiency; the leading cause of preventable blindness in children and a major public health problem throughout the world. She has served as a consultant to UNICEF, USAID, and Helen Keller International in Burkina Faso, Niger, Mauritania, Chad, and the Philippines. Since 1986, Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki has researched the prevalence of glaucoma in Blacks in St. Lucia, West Indies. With a focus on detecting and treating glaucoma- the most common cause of blindness in African Americans and Hispanics-- she has initiated health fairs and screenings throughout Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, U S West Indies and the Dominican Republic. Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki created a program for blindness prevention entitled, "Preventing Glaucoma Blindness in Nebraska: A Creighton University Initiative," targeting individuals at risk for glaucoma blindness in surrounding areas.
