Chioma Ejekam

Working Group Member

I am a Consultant Public Health physician and an expert in Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology with specialization in Medicines Risk identification and quantification. A fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria-Faculty of Public Health and Community Medicine and also a Member of the West Africa College of Physicians-Faculty of Community Health. I obtained her Master’s degree in Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology from Eu2P – Universite de Bordeaux with specialization from Erasmus Medical Center; Master’s in Public Health as well as Medicine and Surgery degree from the University of Lagos Nigeria.
I am currently the Co-Chair West Africa for International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology Africa Chapter (ISPE-Africa).

I have over 12 years of experience working closely with diverse stakeholders from the community, government institutions, bilateral/multilateral organizations in the field of public health with an excellent understanding of the Health system and its socio-cultural linkages.

I am passionate about research. I have expertise in Epidemiology and Control of Communicable and non-communicable diseases, Reproductive health, Primary Health, Global Health, Health Management and policy. I have training and experience in Implementation research and Infection prevention and control.
I have contributed remarkably in the development of Pharmacovigilance and its systems in Nigeria and especially Pharmacovigilance in public health programmes.

I have managed several projects with local and International partners and have been a lead investigators several USAID-funded projects in Nigeria. My research outcome in uterotoincs in Nigeria is contributing to improvements in maternal healthcare in Nigeria.

I have presented, co-chaired committees, symposia, workshops and panel discussions at local and international conferences conferences and scientific meetings.

I volunteer as an Abstract mentor for the International AIDS Society(IAS), review abstracts for IAS, International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology(ISPE) and African Society of Pharmacovigilance(ASOP) scientific meetings and other scientific conferences.

I am a member of IAS,ASOP, ISOP, ISPE and APHPN, NSIC, Infection Control Africa Network (ICAN) and global alliance for Quality-assured Medical products and Global Health.