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Dr Blessing Akombi-Inyang is global health researcher specializing in maternal, adolescent and child health, including childhood under-nutrition and the double burden of malnutrition. Her research��provides evidence for community-based interventions to improve health outcomes among vulnerable sub-populations particularly in developing countries and low resource-settings. She has successfully translated her research into practice and has led community-based initiatives in Nigeria aimed at scaling up the uptake of evidence-based interventions for improving health outcomes.

Blessing co-founded the Global Maternal and Child Health Research Collaboration (GloMACH) - a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research collaboration which aims to provide public policy driven research papers. She is an Academic Editor in BMC Public Health and PLOS ONE journals.��Blessing is currently involved in international consortia such as the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Collaborator Network (Washington DC) and the LBD Double Burden of Malnutrition Collaborators Network. She is also a member of the Global Health research theme, Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) research stream and the Child and Adolescent Health Research Theme Group at the School of Population Health (SPH), UNSW Medicine. In addition, Blessing is a member of the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA).

Blessing has a growing interest in migrant health within Australia particularly in the aspects of nutrition and lifestyle transition post-migration.

Blessing is currently teaching core and elective courses listed below��offered in the Public Health, Global Health,��Infectious Diseases Intelligence and��Health Leadership and Management programs.

Convenor - PHCM1003 Introduction to Global Health

Convenor - PHCM9606 Maternal and Child Health

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