Obioma Nwaorgu Ms. Nwaorgu is a professor of Public Health Parasitology/Medical Entomology and Epidemiology. She has over 20 years experience in university teaching, research projects (including TDR/WHO), and administrative and human resources development including establishing and developing various department academic programs. She has supervised at least 20 MSc and PhD projects. Professor Nwaorgu joined the Roll Back Malaria unit in January, 2002 after successfully completing her Global Health Fellowship program in Roll Back Malaria from September 1999 to December 2001. She has offered extensive advisory services to the National and State Ministries of Health in Nigeria on development and implementation of curative and preventive health programs in rural communities. She has pioneered at least three disease control programs in Nigeria as a chairman or task force member (Guinea worm, Onchocerciasis, Schistosomisis etc.). Professor Nwaorgu is involved in consultancy, monitoring and evaluation services for various international and national organizations and NGOs (UNICEF, Global 2000, APOC/WHO, UNDP, Ford Foundation, Mac-Arthur Foundation, USA, Features Group USA, Rainbow). She is also extensively involved in NGO and peer educator training programs for enhancing community capacity in disease prevention and control including HIV/AIDS.   Return to African Women in Engineering and Science