Contact

• ogechi_anumba@sfu.ca

Ogechi Anumba

Research Assistant 

Areas of Interest

Ogechi’s interests center on Indigenous health equity and community-engaged research. She is particularly interested in decolonial approaches to research and the ways research and evidence can be translated into meaningful policy and practice. Her broader interests include mental wellness, health systems and policy, and community-led approaches that strengthen Indigenous self-determination in health and research.

Education

• Master of Public Health (MPH), University of British Columbia — in progress

• Bachelor of Science (BSc), Combined Major in Science, University of British Columbia

Biography

Ogechi Anumba (she/her) is of Nigerian ancestry on her paternal side and Cree and Métis ancestry on her maternal side. She currently lives and works as an uninvited guest on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Ogechi holds a Bachelor of Science with a Combined Major in Science from the University of British Columbia, with concentrations in chemistry, life sciences, and earth and environmental sciences. She is currently completing her Master of Public Health at UBC, where her interests focus on Indigenous health equity and knowledge translation. She has also contributed to program evaluation at the Public Health Agency of Canada and environmental public health work at the First Nations Health Authority, experiences that have shaped her broader interest in connecting research with policy, practice, and community-led action.

Across her work, Ogechi is committed to continuing to learn from Indigenous communities, researchers, and Knowledge Holders and to supporting approaches to health research that are accountable to the people and communities they are intended to serve.