Chidozie Declan Iwu

Chidozie is a PhD epidemiology candidate at the University of Washington. He holds an MPH in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Disease Control from the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and an MSc in Microbiology from the University of Fort Hare (South Africa).

Chidozie is passionate about infectious disease epidemiology, vaccines, and respiratory disease surveillance. He is also interested in understanding the transmission dynamics of emerging/re-emerging microbial diseases using the One-Health framework. Chidozie previously worked on a project that characterized antimicrobial resistance within the environment-public health interface in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. He also assessed the implementation status of the Global Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance in Africa using data from the World Health Organization. Chidozie previously worked as an epidemiologist at the Outbreak Response Unit/Emergency Operations Center of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa. He also served as a graduate researcher at the Clinical Unit of the Council for Medical Schemes and a teaching assistant at the School of Health Systems and Public Health, University of Pretoria, South Africa. His overarching research interests include global disease burden, molecular epidemiology, outbreak investigation, disease surveillance, disease control, and antimicrobial resistance.