Apampa received her first class Honours Degree in Pharmacy from the University of Benin.[1] She moved to the UK in 1983 to pursue a Master's Degree in Pharmacy at the University of Manchester.[1] After her Master's, she completed her PhD at the University of Manchester, with a thesis titled 'The Biological and Pharmacological effects of Interleukin-1ß'.[2]
Apampa worked as a pharmacy manager and community pharmacy lead before pursuing a degree in Clinical Pharmacy.[1] She returned to academia in the roles of director of learning and teaching and programme director at the Medway School of Pharmacy, which is a collaboration between the University of Kent and the University of Greenwich.[3] During her time here, she received the University of Kent's Sciences Faculty Teaching Prize.[4]
In 2016, Apampa joined the University of Sussex as the Director of Pharmacy Development and was responsible for setting up the Pharmacy Degree programme at Sussex University.[1][5] While at Sussex, she was included in the 'Twelve Women in Academia' exhibition.[6] In 2017, she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.[7]
