Chioma Okafor

Chioma Okafor is a dedicated global health professional, passionate about tackling health and development inequities by harnessing local knowledge and capacity to improve development results. Chioma’s professional and educational background is in global health, health behavior and project management and she is currently the Senior Technical Advisor for Local Capacity Strengthening at Global Communities, a global development non-profit organization. Chioma has over ten years of experience in global public health working on programmatic, and policy initiatives in the United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia. Chioma is also interested in the intersection between media and the development sector and hosted a current affairs podcast centered on the Nigerian diaspora experience tackling a variety of topics including mental health and social issues. She has written opinion pieces on various development topics including Food Insecurity and GBV prevention and been featured on media channels including Devex, NewsCentral TV, The Africa Report, The Republic and BusinessDay Nigeria.