Owen Nkoka is a Research Associate Cohort Manager at the University of Glasgow, seconded as an epidemiologist at MEIRU. He leads the Wellcome Trust funded Healthy Lives Malawi project – both the Demographic Surveillance System and the nested Long-Term Conditions Survey. He also co-leads an HLM-related Public Engagement work package focusing on primary school children to help them explore the role of their parents’ health and childhood environment on future health. Owen has a BSc degree in Environmental Health from the University of Malawi. He holds an MSc and a PhD in Public Health (Epidemiology) from Taipei Medical University, Taiwan.  Owen is also a certified project manager for development professionals (PMD Pro I) and an associate of the chartered management institute.

Prior to joining the University of Glasgow/MEIRU, Owen worked for several international organisations such as World Vision and Sightsavers implementing public health programs focusing on maternal and child health. He also worked as a Biostatistics Teaching assistant at Taipei Medical University and a Research Assistant at the same university on projects covering maternal and child health.

‘For publications, see Owen’s Orcid profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6984-2247’