Obinna Onwujekwe

Obinna Emmanuel Onwujekwe is Professor of Health Economics and Policy and Pharmacoeconomics in the Departments of Health Administration & Management and Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, based in University of Nigeria.[1][2]

Education

Onwujekwe qualified as a medical doctor from University of Nigeria and later obtained a MSc in Health Economics. He obtained a Certificate in District Health Management from the Swiss Tropical Institute Basel. He then proceeded to the United Kingdom where he bagged a PhD in Health Economics and Policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.[2]

Career

Onwujekwe was a member of a DFID-funded Consortium for Research on Equitable Health Systems (CREHS) from 2006 to 2010. He was also a member of the European Commission-funded Eval-Health project from 2011 to 2014. He was also the Dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Technology at UNN between August 2012 to July 2014; and the Head of Department of Health Administration and Management between 2005 and 2012.

Since 2007, Onwujekwe has served as a Director at the West African Health Economics Network (WAHEN). He has also been the National Coordinator of the Nigerian Malaria Control Association (NaMCA) from 2009; the President of the Nigerian Health Economics Association (NiHEA) since 2010; and the Chairman of the University of Nigeria Senate Research Grants Committee since 2014.

Academic contributions

Onwujekwe conducts research on health economics - especially looking at the impact of the stigma of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria on the willingness to access anti-retroviral drugs,[3] and malaria prevention strategies.[4] His work has been important in informing international aid agencies such as DFID's aid agencies.

Publications

Journal articles

Onwujekwe has authored and co-authored dozens of peer-reviewed articles including:

  • Obinna Onwujekwe; Laura D. Howe; Bruna Galobardes; Alicia Matijasevich; David Gordon; Deborah Johnston; Rita Patel; Elizabeth A. Webb; Debbie A. Lawlor; James R. Hargreaves (2012). "Measuring socio-economic position for epidemiological studies in low-and middle-income countries: a methods of measurement in epidemiology paper". International Journal of Epidemiology. 41 (3): 871–886. doi:10.1093/ije/dys037. PMC 3396323. PMID 22438428.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Obinna E. Onwujekwe; Benjamin SC Uzochukwu (2004). "Socio-economic differences and health seeking behaviour for the diagnosis and treatment of malaria: a case study of four local government areas operating the Bamako initiative programme in south-east Nigeria". International Journal for Equity in Health. 3 (1): 6. doi:10.1186/1475-9276-3-6. PMC 544024. PMID 15202941.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Obinna E. Onwujekwe; Kara Hanson; Julia Fox-Rushby (2004). "Inequalities in purchase of mosquito nets and willingness to pay for insecticide-treated nets in Nigeria: Challenges for malaria control interventions". Malaria Journal. 3 (1): 6. doi:10.1186/1475-2875-3-6. PMC 395839. PMID 15023234.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Obinna Onwujekwe; Reginald Chima; Paul Okonkwo (2000). "Economic burden of malaria illness on households versus that of all other illness episodes: a study in five malaria holo-endemic Nigerian communities". Health Policy. 54 (2): 143–159. doi:10.1016/S0168-8510(00)00105-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

References
  1. "Obinna Onwujekwe". Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  2. "Obinna Onwujekwe". University of Nigeria. Archived from the original on November 11, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  3. Onwujekwe, Obinna (April 21, 2016). "How stigma can stymie Nigeria's efforts to extend HIV treatment". Bhekisisa. Archived from the original on January 26, 2018. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  4. Obinna E. Onwujekwe; Kara Hanson; Julia Fox-Rushby (2004). "Inequalities in purchase of mosquito nets and willingness to pay for insecticide-treated nets in Nigeria: Challenges for malaria control interventions". Malaria Journal. 3 (1): 6. doi:10.1186/1475-2875-3-6. PMC 395839. PMID 15023234.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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