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Dr Chioma Nwaru

Research Fellow – Inequalities and Marginalised Communities

Chioma Nwaru is a Research Fellow within our Inequalities and Marginalised Communities theme. She is based at Newcastle University.

Background

Chioma completed her BSc in Public Health at Babcock University, Nigeria, and then proceeded to Finland where she had her masters and doctoral studies in Health Sciences at Tampere University.

Chioma has several years of experience in designing and delivering quantitative research projects addressing different public health problems including sickness absence, unemployment, mental health and alcohol abuse among women.

She has worked with large survey and register data in both Finland and Sweden (Gothenburg University).

Her latest research work before joining Newcastle University focused on identifying factors underlying increased risk of COVID-19 outcomes among immigrants in high income countries (with special focus on immigrant essential workers in Sweden).

Chioma has also been engaged in teaching MPH courses (e.g., migration and health) and she has supervised several MPH students’ theses.

Chioma is passionate about reducing health inequality in our society.

Areas of interest:

  • Social inequalities in health
  • Health and labour market attachment
  • Sickness absence
  • Migration and health
  • Intersectionality and health inequalities

Recent or relevant publications

Nwaru C, Huiqi L, Bonander C, Santosa A, Franzen S, Rosvall M, Nyberg F. Occupational role and COVID-19 among foreign-born healthcare workers in Sweden: a registry-based study. Eur J Public Health 2023:33(2):202-208.

Spetz M, Lundberg L, Nwaru C, Huiqi L, Santosa A, Ng N, et al. An intersectional analysis of sociodemographic disparities in COVID-19 vaccination: A nationwide register-based study in Sweden. Vaccine 2022;40(46):6640-6648.

Spetz M, Lundberg L, Nwaru C, Huiqi L, Santosa A, Leach S, et al. The social patterning of COVID-19 vaccine uptake in older adults: a register-based cross-sectional study in Sweden. Lancet Reg Health Eur 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100331.

Nwaru C, Huiqi L, Santosa A, Franzen S, Nyberg F. Occupation and COVID-19 diagnosis, hospitalization and ICU admission among foreign-born and Swedish-born employees: a register-based study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2022;76:440-447.

Nwaru C, Berglund T, Hensing G. Occupational prestige and sickness absence inequality in employed women and men in Sweden: a registry-based study BMJ Open 2021. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050191.

Nwaru C, Lovestad S, Gunnarsdottir H, Sundh V, Hensing G. Determinants of non-response in a longitudinal study of participants in the Women and Alcohol in Gothenburg project. Women Health 2021;61:452-460.

Nwaru C, Kivimaki M, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Virtanen P. Sickness absence in a re-employment program as a predictor of labour market attachment among long-term unemployed individuals: a 6-year cohort study in Finland. Scand J Work Environ Health 2018;44:496-502.

Nwaru C, Peutere L, Kivimaki M, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Virtanen PJ. Chronic diseases as predictors of labour market attachment after participation in subsidised re-employment programme: a 6-year follow-up study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2017;71:1101-1106.

Nwaru C, Nygard C-H, Virtanen P. Musculoskeletal pain and re-employment among unemployed job seekers: a three-year follow-up study. BMC Public Health 2016. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3200-0.

Get in touch

Email:  [email protected]
ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1772-2347