Oparaocha Evangeline Tochi
Federal University of Technology, Nigeria
Biography
Rev. Sr Prof. Evangeline Oparaocha, is a professor of public health parasitology, of the Department of Public Health, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria. She is highly skilled in diverse aspects of public health and has contributed tremendously in areas of epidemiology, prevention and control of major endemic parasitic diseases, use of ethnobotinicals in the control of endemic diseases, gender disparity in disease burden, community participation in disease control, prevention and control of highly, prevalent non-communicable diseases as well as occupational and environmental health and safety. With her tremendous, imperative research skill and over 19 years of teaching experiences in universities, she has played a leading and unparallel role in championing and repositioning high quality teaching and research techniques in the department. She has mentored numerous undergraduate and postgraduate students whose researches and health outreaches have positively affected the health outcome of communities around and beyond. Her researches have translated into more than 40 quality international journal articles in various aspects of public health, minor productive works and books in other disciplines. She has made a global mark in the control of tropical diseases using ethnobotinicals. Besides her academic field, she scripts and produces home video films.
Abstract
Abstract : Childhood Obesity in Nigeria: Causes and Suggestions for Control