Faculty: Medicine
Program: Master of Public Health
Year: 2019
Country: Nigeria
Nancy is an ambitious goal-oriented pharmacist, with a growing interests in population and public health. She obtained a Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm), as well as a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D) degree at the University of Benin, Benin City (UNIBEN). During her undergraduate studies, she held a leadership position as a congresswoman in the Pharmaceutical Association of Nigerian Students, counselling teenagers prone to drug abuse. She participated actively in an outreach held in Kuje village, Abuja, Nigeria, amidst a team of young pharmacists, supported by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control, NAFDAC. She planned outreach programs to adolescents in suburbs of Abuja during which she educated teenagers on topics ranging from personal hygiene to dangers of drug abuse.
Nancy believes in gaining knowledge and technical skills in disease control and prevention through the Master of Public Health program offered by University of British Columbia. As an aspiring public health professional, she hope to take advantage of the rich Global Health curriculum as well as the prestige of a world-class and socio-culturally diverse learning space with an academically excellent Faculty. She is excited by UBC’s fantastic practicum opportunity which provides a platform for students to integrate classroom learning and practice in a population or public health work environment, to contribute to African Healthcare mandate and address the health problem of Nigerian rural villages.