Abstract
Patients worldwide confront a myriad of obstacles when accessing healthcare, spanning from financial constraints and insufficient infrastructure to social stigma. Additionally, they must navigate through personal preferences, societal pressures, and cultural beliefs, further complicating their healthcare-seeking journey. In this talk, the speaker will share insights garnered from research conducted in TB-high burden countries, shedding light on the individual healthcare seeking journey and its implications for healthcare providers across diverse settings. Through a nuanced examination of healthcare seeking behaviors, she will elucidate the universal challenges and opportunities inherent in patient care. Spanning from resource-rich to resource-constrained environments, this talk will delve into the hurdles faced by individuals and opportunities for impactful support.
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Speaker: Charity Oga-Omenka
Dr. Charity Oga-Omenka is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health Sciences. Her research interests focus on global public health, healthcare access and services research - particularly related to infectious diseases like tuberculosis, HIV and COVID-19, social determinants of health and the intersections between health inequities - using mixed methods research. She is invested in research that focuses on transformative conceptual frameworks and methods to address the inequalities and underutilization of evidence-based approaches in global public health - particularly in resource-limited settings or with marginalized groups, one that will reflect on socioeconomic diversity in population health. Dr Oga-Omenka has an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy from the Ahmadu Bello University Nigeria, and has graduate degrees in Public (Global) Health from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa and the University of Montreal, Canada.