About me
Prof Obiageli Nnodu- CESRTA, University of Abuja Director
She is a Professor of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Director, Centre of Excellence for Sickle Cell Disease Research and Training at University of Abuja (CESRTA), the National Coordinator of the American Society of Hematology Consortium for Newborn screening in Africa (CONSA), the Nigerian Principal Investigator for SPARCO, Abuja Coordinator for SickleGenAfrica and Co-PI for the UK NIHR Patient centred management of sickle cell disease in Sub Saharan Africa, MPI for mAnaging siCkle CELL diseasE through incReased AdopTion of hydroxyurEa in Nigeria (ACCELERATE).
She has carried out many multi-institutional, multi-national research projects and serve as expert on technical committees on non-communicable diseases with the Nigerian government and as consultant for international agencies including the WHO AFRO. Between 2018-2019, her assessment of the level of implementation of the WHO AFRO Strategy in SCD in sub-Saharan Africa high burden countries highlighted the need for increased global funding for SCD. She also led a successful application for the inclusion of point of care tests for sickle cell disease in the essential diagnostics list of the WHO - EDL3.
In 2019 She was featured in the Faces of Sickle Cell Disease by the US NIH National Heart Blood and Lung Institute. She is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Medicine and Chair the largest sickle cell disease network in Africa i.e., the Sickle Cell Support Society of Nigeria. She led the section on Screening and Prevention in the Lancet Haematology Commission on Sickle Cell Disease.