Winifred Ekezie

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Dr Winifred Ekezie

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6622-0784

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    Email: [email protected] 

    Biography

    I teach and research national and international public health issues, with particular emphasis on health equity for marginalised populations. I have practical experience in international program monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), health promotion, evidence synthesis, advocacy and policy evaluation. I also use innovative creative arts and research methodologies and conduct rigorous evidence synthesis projects to identify best practices and sustainable interventions, and to contribute to guideline development.
     
    My current research focuses on vaccination, health communication, health access inequalities and community engagement amongst ethnic minorities, seldom-heard groups, migrants, and internally displaced populations.
     

    Research Interests

    Global Health, Human Displacement, Migration, Marginalised Groups, Community Engagement, Health Risk Analysis, Health Inequalities, Health Services, Sustainable Interventions, Mixed-Methods Research, Systematic Reviews

    Teaching Activity

    LKM101 - Research Methods

    LKM104 - Health Promotion

    LKM207 - Global Health 

    LKM205 - Economic and Commercial Determinants of Health

    PhD Supervision

    Current:

    Hamad Alshatti - Strategic Implementation and evaluation of Health Applications in Diabetes Care (Aston University, Associate Supervisor)

    Godwin Ukeje - Digital Readiness for Health Data Management: Implementation of Electronic Patient Records in the UK and Germany (Aston University, Associate Supervisor)

    Management Role

    Master of Public Health, Programme Director

    Center for Health and Society, Director

    Membership of Professional Bodies

    Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)

    Member of International Society of Global Health (ISoGH)

     

    Funding Applications and Awards

    2026-2027, Advancing actions to address inequality in health care access (PI) - £20,000 [Funder: Social Science Innovation Award, Aston University]

    2023-2024,  Identifying gaps in drowning data collection in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) and the actors addressing them (Co-I) [Funder: Royal National Lifeboat Institution]

    2022-2024, Burden and management of multimorbidities among migrants (PI) [Funder: National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) East Midlands]

    2022-2024, Ethnic minority health research priority – REPRESENT study (Co-I, Lead Researcher) [Funder: National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) East Midlands]

    2022-2023, Tackling antimicrobial resistance (‘AMR’) through community-based screening (Co-PI) [Funder: Institute of Precision Health, University of Leicester]

    2022-2023, Understanding perceptions of Black communities about taking part in genomic research (Co-PI)  [Funder: Wellcome Trust ISSF Public Engagement Scheme, University of Leicester]

    2022 - 2023, Improving engagement of Gypsy and Travellers (GTs) in perinatal mortality research (PI) [Funder: Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Leicester]

    2021- 2022, Covid-19 information flow, health inequalities and public health impact among ethnic minority communities in Leicester (Co-PI) [Funder: Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Leicester]

     

    Education/Academic qualification

    PG Cert, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Aston University

    PhD Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham

    Masters in Public Health (MPH), University of Sheffield

    External positions

    Regional Coordinator - UK, Avoidable Deaths Network

    Evidence Synthesis Coordinator, Avoidable Deaths Network

    Core Group Member, Health and Internal Displacement Network

    External Examiner, Lancaster University

    Honorary Research Fellow, University of Leicester

    Keywords

    • RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
    • H Social Sciences (General)

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