Dr Chima Ohuabunwo is a public health physician and US CDC-trained medical epidemiologist [EIS class of 2000] with vast global health experience. He joined Morehouse School of Medicine in 2002 but spent the last ten years collaborating with US CDC in supporting the global polio eradication initiative, other global infectious disease control efforts and One-Health field epidemiology workforce capacity development in Africa. He is currently a Professor in the department of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) as well as an Adjunct Professor of Global Health at the Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta GA. He also served as Associate Director for Science & Research at the Grady Health System Center for Clinical Performance Improvement – an MSM-Emory-Grady collaborative center for health systems/health outcomes research and capacity development.

He served as a co-investigator and lead epidemiologist on the CDC funded 5-year MSM-Ghana HIV/AIDS Monitoring and Evaluation (GHAME) project. This was a US PEPFAR strategic information capacity development support to Ghana through the Ghana AIDS Commission and the University Of Ghana School Of Public Health.  He recently served as the Executive Director of the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET); a US-CDC implementing partner headquartered in Kampala-Uganda with footprint in over 30 sub-Saharan African countries.

Dr Chima loves teaching and supervising field work with the opportunity to serve the community while training/mentoring next generation of public health workforce and global health leaders. He was the pioneer Resident Advisor of the Ghana Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, the pioneer National coordinator/Technical Advisor of the CDC-supported National Stop Transmission of Polio (NSTOP) program in Nigeria implemented through the Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (NFELTP) under the auspices of AFENET. During this period he served as a foundation member of the National Polio Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and as the Coordinator for the Case Management and Infection Prevention team of the Ebola Emergency Operations Center that worked with the government of Nigeria, public, international and local partners to contain the 2014 West Africa Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Outbreak in Nigeria. He has worked as medical epidemiologist with the CDC Global Immunization Division and served as Technical Lead for the USAID supported AFENET One Health Initiative in East Africa.

Dr. Ohuabunwo received his bachelor’s degree in Human Physiology and his medical degree from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He completed his Medical internship rotations at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. His residency training was completed in Community Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria with board certification of the West African College of Physicians. He also received his MPH degree with concentration in Health Systems and Outcomes Management from the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA. He is well published (>40 peer-reviewed papers), widely travelled and has a flare for languages and diversity.