Blessing Akombi-Inyang

Dr. Blessing Akombi-Inyang is a global health researcher specializing in maternal, neonatal, and child health, particularly addressing malnutrition and public health challenges in developing countries. She holds an academic position at the School of Population Health, UNSW Medicine, where she teaches courses like PHCM1003 Introduction to Global Health and PHCM9606 Maternal and Child Health. She co-founded the Global Maternal and Child Health Research Collaboration (GloMACH) and is an Academic Editor for BMC Public Health and PLOS ONE. Her research focuses on community-based interventions in low-resource settings, migrant health transitions in Australia, and global health policy frameworks.

Education: PhD in Public Health (Western Sydney University, 2018), MPH (University of Newcastle, 2014), and BSc (Hons) Biochemistry (Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria, 2008).

Research interests include undernutrition, double burden of malnutrition, adolescent health, and epidemiological analyses, with a focus on vulnerable populations in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. She collaborates with global networks like the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Collaborator Network and Double Burden of Malnutrition Collaborators Network. Her work bridges research into actionable public health policies and community initiatives, such as scaling up evidence-based interventions in Nigeria.

Recent publications emphasize migrant health post-migration transitions, maternal and child nutrition, and pandemic-related mental health impacts among sub-Saharan African migrant workers. She actively engages with policy-oriented research, including contributions to the Child and Adolescent Health Research Theme Group at UNSW.