Dr. Blessing Akombi Inyang

Biography

Blessing Akombi-Inyang is a global health researcher specializing in maternal and adolescent child health, particularly in the areas of childhood under-nutrition and the double burden of malnutrition. He provides evidence through community-based interventions aimed at improving health outcomes for vulnerable sub-populations, particularly in developing countries with low-resource settings. His research has successfully translated into practice, leading to community-based initiatives in Nigeria that scale the uptake of evidence-based interventions. Blessing co-founded the Global Maternal Child Health Research Collaboration (GloMACH), a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional research collaboration that aims to provide public policy-driven research. He serves as an Academic Editor for BMC Public Health and PLOS journals and is currently involved in international consortia, including the Global Burden of Disease Collaborator Network. Additionally, he is a member of the Global Health research theme, focusing on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) and Child Adolescent Health at the School of Population Health, UNSW Medicine. Blessing also has a growing interest in migrant health in Australia, especially regarding nutrition and lifestyle transitions post-migration. He teaches core and elective courses in Public Health, Global Health, and Infectious Diseases Intelligence, and he is the convenor for PHCM1003 Introduction to Global Health and PHCM9606 Maternal Child Health.

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