Career & Expertise

At the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), in Nigeria, Evangeline Oparaocha is a professor of public health parasitology at the Department of Public Health Technology.

Holding a PhD from the University of Ibadan, she was the Head of the Department of Public Health from 2015 – 2017.She has been serving as the dean of the FUTO School of Health Technology since 2017.

A fellow of the African Institute of Public Health Professionals, she has 30 publications to her name, with a total of 9,293 reads, and 89 citations.

Skills Utilisation

When it comes to problems with disease outbreaks that affect both humans and animals, Prof. Oparaocha is a resource. Animal parasitology, parasitic diseases, zoonotic diseases, medical parasitology, tropical diseases, infectious disease epidemiology, infectious disease transmission, medical entomology, newly emerging infectious diseases, and infectious disease control and prevention are among the areas in which she is skilled and knowledgeable.