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.

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.

Career

Onwujekwe was a member of a DFID-funded Consortium for Research on Equitable Health Systems 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. He has also been the National Coordinator of the Nigerian Malaria Control Association from 2009; the President of the Nigerian Health Economics Association 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, and malaria prevention strategies. 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:
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