Poster presenter

JOHNSON CITY (June 13, 2018) – A doctoral student in East Tennessee State University’s College of Public Health has been selected to present her research at the Delta Omega national student poster session taking place at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA).

Ifeoma Ozodiegwu will present her research poster, titled “Socioeconomic status and overweight in low-income countries: A case study of the modifying role of education on the association between household wealth and overweight in Mozambique,” during the meeting’s Student Poster Session scheduled to take place later this year. The session is sponsored by the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health through the Academic Public Health Caucus. Delta Omega hosts a national student poster session honoring exceptional student research. Each year the selected students are given the opportunity to present faculty nominated research at the APHA annual meeting. Participants are awarded a cash prize and certificate.

Ozodiegwu is one of just 29 students selected to present her scholarship and research at the APHA meeting in San Diego.

An international student from Nigeria, Ozodiegwu just completed her third year in the doctor of public health program where she is concentrating in epidemiology in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology. She holds a master of public health degree from ETSU and a bachelor’s degree in applied biochemistry from Enugu State University of Science and Technology in Nigeria.

Earlier this year, Ozodiegwu was awarded the inaugural Sherrod Library Graduate Student Scholarship for Excellence in Research at ETSU. She received the award for her paper addressing the relationship between maternal obesity and neonatal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa.