Lecturer in Public Health

I am a medical graduate, with post-graduate training in public health with the National post-graduate college of Nigeria. I have also received further training in health management, planning and policy with the University of Leeds funded by the Joint Japan World Bank scholarship scheme.

Over the years, I have gained a lot of experience teaching public health, - (with a track record for delivering the highest standard of tuition)-and in Public Health practice. These encompass teaching undergraduate medical students, postgraduate master's students, and medical/public health workers at local and international levels. Also, I have been involved in volunteering, community work, placements, and collaboration with government, non-governmental, and private organizations. With regards to research and research projects, I have been involved in a lot of projects (both completed and ongoing) with good results.

I started this role as a lecturer in public health in Bedfordshire University in August 2022, and enjoy approaching my teaching in an innovative way, adopting creative teaching strategies to enrich student experience, improve competency and engender transformative learning. Prior to this role, I had worker as academic tutor in Public health department, Sunderland University; teaching across a range of modules like social determinants of health and health inequalities, epidemiology and health measurement, and also supporting the public health BSc apprenticeship program and practised as a Public health physician in Alex Ekwueme federal teaching hospital in Ebonyi State, Nigeria.

The course units I teach, and my research interests are deeply intertwined; which makes it relevant to both the students and public health practise. I am very passionate about change, and I strongly believe that the public health realities of our contemporary world and the fast-changing challenges and needs of the future public health workforce (especially post covid-19 pandemic) will benefit from a new and fresh approach to learning which empowers students to solve real-life problems as they emerge.

Other References

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/chika-anyigor-545bb2158
• https://twitter.com/AnyigorChikaJ

Qualifications

• MA Health management, planning and policy - University of Leeds
• Associate fellow National postgraduate college of Nigeria, faculty of public health
• Executive certificate, African institute for health policy and systems research host by world health organisation.
• MBBS Alex Ekwueme teaching hospital, Abakaliki, Ebonyi state.

Teaching Expertise

• Social determinants of health and health inequalities
• Health systems, planning and policy
• Epidemiology and health measurements

Research Interests

• I work across public health related thematic areas, with special interest in :
• Health system strengthening
• Maternal and child
• Budding interest in implementation science.

Projects

• I served as the second supervisor for Ebonyi state in a federal ministry of health, Nigeria- National HIV and reproductive health survey 2013. It was a multi and inter-disciplinary team setup, with intersectional collaboration and entailed travelling across the then 13 local government areas in Ebonyi state doing advocacy visits to policymakers, heads of units within the LGA, active disease surveillance, gathering data, collating, and sending off for analysis. Working collaboratively with the team, I supported closely the lead supervisor for team organisation, planning logistics, data collection, interviewing (face to face, inept, key interviews and focus group discussions) and general process supervision.
• I participated in a state training plan development workshop. The national malaria control program (NMCP) deployed an effort to improve malaria control in Nigeria by developing a capacity building training package for case management/service delivery and management of malaria control/programme management. This effort was directly supported by USAID funded malaria action program for states to develop a training plan to guide the state's training process and enhance the cost-effective use of available resources for Ebonyi State, I served as a member of the malarial technical working group, supporting in the state training plan development.
• Population and reproductive health program, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Nigeria Collaborating with United Nations Health 4 (UNH4) in 15 states and federal capital territory. In Ebonyi State, I served in the team as the data collector, collecting and collating data using exit interviews for mothers using the selected health care facilities.
• I collaborated with the world health organisation during supplementary immunization activities for polio eradication in Nigeria, specifically in the key area of program process monitoring and evaluation using expertise in a technique called Lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) and added great value to the program implementation, output, and outcome.

External Roles

• Participant, building a public health and emergency workforce: a roadmap by World health Organisation – May 2022
• Facilitator/quest lecturer, Joint Japan world bank mentorship scheme for a scholarship mentorship group in Uganda- June 2020
• Poster Judge and poster presentation at the 5^th Global symposium on Health systems Research, organised by Health system global in Liverpool - 2018
• Participant, Inauguration and protocol development for West African network of emerging leaders in health policy and systems 2018 in Liverpool.
• As ISGlobal Alumni Participant, International spring school in Global health powered by Barcelona institute for Global health-may 2022
• University of Sheffield World health Organisation simulation, an interdisciplinary and experiential learning conference (simulating world health assembly) where I was exposed to extensive practice in policy making and negotiation as I acted as a delegate representing Cuba, deliberating on outbreaks and pandemics: Addressing the next crisis- April 2018
• Study tour to Geneva Switzerland 2018. This involved visiting WHO, Red Cross Museum, United Nations, and other NGO’s and UN Agencies and was exposed to the roles International organisations play as advocate for health at a global level.

Publications

• Akamike IC, Madubueze UC, Okedo-Alex IN, Anyigor CJ, Azuogu BN, Umeokonkwo CD, Mbachu CO. Perception, pattern of use, partner support and determinants of uptake of family planning methods among women in rural communities in Southeast Nigeria. Contracept Reprod Med. 2020 Sep 1;5:14. doi: 10.1186/s40834-020-00120-x. PMID: 32884833; PMCID: PMC7461266. Available at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32884833/
• Master’s dissertation with the University of Leeds: 'Assessment of missed opportunities for childhood Vaccination: Development of a research proposal for a federal teaching hospital, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria'. I was awarded a distinction in my dissertation in December 2018 (which was a dissertation proposal) with an outcome: A proposal for my prospective PhD topic.
• A research Dissertation from an executive certificate course with the African institute for health policy and health system with WHO in 2017, titled: Postgraduate Speciality Preference among Clinical students in Ebonyi State University and its healthcare delivery implication: Relevance of guidance and counselling.

Ongoing:

• DESTINE Scoping review: Generating evidence on the gender considerations given to the design of a recent TB-related intervention and gendered pattern of their outcomes, collaborating with the LIGHT Consortium (Liverpool school of tropical medicine, UK and Zankli research centre, Nigeria.
• Collaborating with the Surge project in Abia state, Nigeria: The use of LF-LAM (Lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan assay) in the diagnosis of active TB among patients with advanced HIV disease in Abia state, Nigeria: A cross-sectional study
• Operational feasibility of the implementation of LF-LAM as a diagnostic approach in diagnosis of active TB among patients with advanced HIV disease in Abia state: Implementation study
• Assessment of missed opportunities for childhood immunization: Prevalence and associated factors in Ebonyi state, Nigeria, collaborating with a research team in University of calabar teaching hospital, Nigeria.
• Perception and experience of the effects of climate change amongst Physicians working in an impacted city in southern Nigeria: Health Policy Implication, in collaboration with a research team in University of calabar.

Contact Details

E: chika.anyigor@beds.ac.uk