Justus A. Akinsanya

Justus Akinbayo Akinsanya, FRCN (31 December 1936 – 11 August 2005) was a nurse, human biologist, nurse educator and researcher.

Early life and career Born in Okun-Owa, Ijebu, Nigeria (near Lagos) in 1936 he came to the United Kingdom aged 21. He started his career in nursing at Abergele Chest Hospital in Wales 1958-1959

Akinsanya then trained in General Nursing at Crumpsall Hospital, Manchester 1959-1962. In 1967 he did post-registration courses in orthopaedics at Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital in Hampshire, dermatology at St. John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin in London and psychiatric nursing. one of many articles that Akinsanya was to write, but one that was written under the pseudonym of J Jones Subiar. As a result he was offered a tutor's job at King's College Hospital, London. where he set up writers’ workshops for professional nurses in Nigeria in 1977. He was a lecturer at the Institute of Management and Technology in Enugu 1976-1977.

He returned to the UK and gained a PhD at King's College London for his thesis Knowledge of the life sciences as a basis for practice: some problems in nurse education awarded in 1984 This explored his influential concept of bio-nursing, which he defined as clinical nursing that uses in practice the principles of natural sciences such as biology.

From 1985-1989 he was at the Dorset Institute of Higher Education, first as Reader

He subsequently took up the post of Academic Dean and Pro-Vice Chancellor of the newly created Faculty of Health and Social Work at Anglia Polytechnic University 1989-1996,

Akinsanya highlighted racial injustice through his work for the Commission for Racial Equality and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) He also sat on the RCN working party on nursing in a multiracial society

Death He died in London at the age of 68 after contracting an infection at the International Council of Nurses conference in Taiwan some months earlier.