11/02/2026
WE ARE LIVE
*MEET OUR SPEAKER*
Dr. A. O. Ndep Antor Ndep has over 20 years of public health practice experience, including management level positions. She recently concluded a two-year term as the Acting Head of Department of Public Health, University of Calabar 2023-2025. She has held training sessions for staff/volunteers of national and international non-governmental organizations (including USAID-sponsored organizations in Nigeria) on areas ranging from Qualitative and/or mixed methods Research, Emergency Risk Communication, HIV/AIDS, Community-level violence, Gender-based violence including Female Ge***al Mutilation, adolescent reproductive health, menstrual/personal hygiene, infant & child feeding practices, and cardiovascular disease risk factors education and prevention. Dr. Ndep has held consultancy positions in Nigeria with Gender and Development Action (GADA), Family Health International (FHI-360), Safe Haven Development Initiative, Mediatrix Development Foundation, and Steadyflow Missions and Homecare, among others.
She has mentored/supervised staff and Public Health/Health Professions students since 2000 and directly supervised graduate students’ research since 2003. Dr. Ndep served the pioneer Director of Academic Planning at Havilla University. She is the author of Healthy Tales; a health education model where health information is shared in a folk-tale format making it easy for people with low literacy to read and comprehend (healthytalesbyAntor.blogspot.com). As Executive Director (2007-2010), she transitioned the Common Ground Health Clinic, a volunteer initiated and run make-shift community clinic in post-Katrina New Orleans into a high-quality Patient-Centered Medical Home with a focus on patient and community participation.
Dr. Ndep is a member of several research groups including the Center for Eye care and Public Health Interventions Initiative (CEPHII); a multidisciplinary group of African researchers working in seven countries around the world but focused on conducting high quality research in Africa by Africans. Dr. Ndep’s research philosophy is to engage the community in ways that the data collected and disseminated is not only meaningful to them, it actually, with the right support, propels meaningful change from the ground up.
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