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Dr. Chizoba Wonodi (MBBS, MPH, DrPH) is the Nigeria country programs director at International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC), advisor for Saving One Million Lives Initiative(SOML) and Gavi’s Strategic Demand Forecast for vaccines. She is also the founder and national convener, Women Advocates for Vaccine Access (WAVA). In the past, Dr. Wonodi was a medical epidemiologist at IVAC: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from 2013 - 2015, surveillance officer at GAVI’s PneumoADIP: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from 2009-2013, research/teaching assistant at the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, program officer: HIV/AIDS Control Program at Ministry of Health, Rivers State, Nigeria from 2001 - 2002. In addition, she is an expert on policy advice, implementation science research and advocacy strategy development in the area of routine immunization, new vaccine introduction and sustainable immunization financing.

Biography and Education[edit]
Dr. Chizoba Wonodi was born on the 5th of December, 1970 in Mbaise, Imo state, Nigeria. She graduated with a Bachelor in Medicine, Bachelor in Surgery from University of Benin, Nigeria. She continued her studies at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Population and Family Health where she received a Masters and Doctorate in Public Health.

Research[edit]
Dr. Wonodi spent 4 years working on Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) in Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health after receiving her Dr.PH. There, she served first as a surveillance officer: GAVI’s PneumoADIP for 3 years, and then as a Medical Epidemiologist for 4 years where she provided research support to develop the post mortem research strategy, study protocols, tools and standard operating procedures. During the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Impact Studies in the Gambia and Kenya (2009-2012), she supported the global level coordination of both studies, undertook comparative analysis and report writing to the donor. She worked as an immunization advisor for 2 years at Saving One Million Lives Initiative (SOML): Federal Government of Nigeria, also as a research/teaching assistant for 4 years at the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she conducted literature review, supported research analysis and assisted with the summer institute with planning a conference on youth and development.

As the director of the Nigeria programs at IVAC, she is responsible for project development, proposal writing, faculty recruitment, implementation oversight, donor and stakeholder management as well as documentation for the portfolio of projects in routine immunization, new vaccine introduction and sustainable immunization financing that IVAC undertakes in Nigeria. She founded Women Advocates for Vaccine Access (WAVA) in 2015, a coalition of Civil Society Organizations aimed at advocating for sustainable immunization financing.

Dr. Wonodi has completed 2 peer reviews (vaccines and Bulletin of the World Health Organization). She has published 11 peer journal articles and submitted 7 in preparation for publication. Additionally, she appears regularly on radio, television, and in print as an expert in routine immunization and vaccines.

Dr. Wonodi's research interests lie at the intersection of policy and health systems research, with a bias for studies that have direct programmatic or policy application. she focuses on vaccine access, pneumonia and diarrheal control and HIV/AIDS as well as supply and demand-side strategies to improve coverage of health interventions. In addition, her work on reproductive health and HIV/AIDS in adolescents and adults centers on the prevention of reproductive health morbidity, prevention of HIV and HPV acquisition.

Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health
The PERCH (Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health) project is a multi-country, case-control study to determine the etiology of and risk factors for severe and very severe pneumonia in children 1-59 months of age. Laboratory techniques that have remained largely unchanged for many decades and analytic methods that are not able to address the challenges inherent in the data have limited our understanding of pneumonia etiology. By applying modern diagnostics with standardized methods across all sites, PERCH will contribute new, detailed information to inform the development of new vaccines and treatment approaches.

The PERCH project is a large, multi-country, case-control study of severe and very severe pneumonia in hospitalized children under five years of age. Nine PERCH sites in seven countries were selected for the study on the basis that they represented areas where most of the severe pneumonia cases in children were likely to occur in 2015 and where Hib and PCV vaccines were already implemented in most sites. Read more on PERCH project here

PneumoADIP - The Gambia & Kenya
PneumoADIP was a 5-year, funded by GAVI to accelerate the development and implementation of lifesaving pneumococcal vaccines for the world’s poorest children.

Honors and Awards

 * 2016: Youth Solidarity Award" by the Leadership Advancement Foundation, at the National Youth Leadership Conference (NYLC), which held in Abuja. Recognized for contributions to youth development in Nigeria
 * 2008: Caroline Cochrane award for Reproductive Health, Department of Population Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
 * 2007: Population Reference Bureau Policy Fellow; a competitive fellowship open to all developing country public health students in the US and awarded to students whose research show strong promise for policy impact
 * 2004: The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute Scholarship for Doctorate in Public Health, a prestigious award given in recognition of academic excellence and public health career promise
 * 2003: The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute Scholarship for Masters in Public Health, a prestigious award given in recognition of academic excellence and public health career promise