Dr Chizoba Esio-Bassey

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Senior Lecturer in Public Health

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HAS - Allied Health Professions

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Qualifications:O.D, Msc, PhD
Position:Senior 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 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. In this role, 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 is a member of Economics for Eye Health Network, an association of over 30 academics across the globe including John Hopkins University and University of New South Wales Australia. Currently, she works with this network which aims to develop standardized global methodological approaches and data collection tools for global eye health, following its Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health Series. Her involvement includes developing a health economics module for Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB) and a reference case to support standardized costing for eye care to inform funding and social policy decisions.

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), 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 Programme. She has led and developed modules including Evidencing Public Health Learning in Practice 1 and 2, Public Health Policy, Politics and Economics (MSc), Public Health Policy (BSc) and Commissioning for Population Health. She is also involved in the supervision of MSc dissertation.

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