Dr Chizoba Esio-Bassey

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Lecturer in Public Health

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HAS - Allied Health Professions

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Qualifications:O.D, Msc, PhD
Position:Lecturer in Public Health
Department:HAS - Allied Health Professions
Telephone:+44117 965 6261
Email:Chizoba.Esio-Bassey@uwe.ac.uk

About me

Chizoba trained as an Optometrist in Nigeria (Doctor of Optometry). She has an MSc in Public Health from the University of East London and a PhD in Health Economics from the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Her PhD focused on the role of home food production (biofortified vitamin A cassava and maize) in the prevention of nutritional blindness in children. First, she undertook and published a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the impact of home food production on nutritional blindness, stunting, wasting, underweight and mortality in children. Second, she carried out a cost-effectiveness analysis where she developed a Markov model from scratch to assess the cost-effectiveness of home gardening/community farming of vitamin A biofortified yellow cassava and orange maize to prevent nutritional blindness in children. Lastly, she carried out a value of information analysis to examine the value of additional information to reduce uncertainty associated with adopting home gardening/community farming of yellow cassava and orange maize to prevent nutritional blindness in children.

Chizoba worked as a Senior Research Associate at the University of East Anglia where she was involved in a World Health Organisation funded scoping reviews to update dietary requirements on Iron, vitamin A and magnesium for children globally. She has also worked as a Research Culture Coordinator at the University of East Anglia where she carried out a qualitative study to explore the experiences of international postgraduate research students in engaging with the research culture at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Chizoba's areas of expertise include eye health, vitamin A, pneumonia, and HIV. Her methodological expertise includes systematic review, meta-analyses, qualitative research, economic evaluation, and value of information analysis.

Chizoba was a Lecturer at the University of Wales Trinity Saint Davids (London Campus) where she taught and led modules in Health and Social Care such as Community Care and Development, Professional Career Development as well as International Business Communication amongst others. She was also involved in the supervision of students' dissertation.

Chizoba is currently teaching at the University of the West of England as a Lecturer in Public Health for the BSc Public Health Apprenticeship Degree Programme as well as the MSc Public Health and the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Programme. She is also involved in the supervision of MSc dissertation.

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