Profile: Chima Onoka
Chima Onoka from Nigeria studied MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing.
"Following my graduation from University of Port-Harcourt Nigeria, and a specialist training as a public health physician, I got involved in health policy and systems research through the Health Policy Research Group, College of medicine, University of Nigeria. The nature of the research and its usefulness in informing public health related policy stirred up my desire to acquire knowledge and skill in health economics and health policy analysis.
The MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing programme offered by the LSHTM was recommended to me as an avenue to acquire such knowledge. Going through information provided on its website, the school offered to provide knowledge regarding health policy and systems from a wide range of international perspectives.
To say that my expectations were met in the LSHTM would be an understatement. From the first contact with the school, it feels like a cruise through a supportive atmosphere until one gets to the end of the programme. First, explicit communication of procedures received from the registry after my application was received by the registry made me feel valued. Then the reception in the first week set the perfect stage for learning and the modules were patterned to make one learn and apply the knowledge within each term. Moreover, the experienced staff that had been exposed to research and learning all over the world including developing countries, provided individual and group support in simple unassuming but extraordinarily useful ways that took one smoothly but surely to the term deadlines and the ultimate end of the sail.
The history of excellence in the school revealed in its archives certainly hasn't diminished. That excellence gets transmitted to the students and I gladly recommend the school as the first three options for anyone interested in health policy and systems knowledge and research."
Maria Teresa Cutino Moguel also studied the MSc in Applied Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases
