Ms. Oburota Chukwuedo Susan

MBBS (Sydney), FRACS (Paediatric Surgery)

Ms.Chukwuedo Susan Oburota is a lecturer in the Department of Economics University of Calabar, Nigeria. She was employed in 2008 as a Graduate Assistant, upgraded to the rank of an Assistant Lecturer in 2012, and is currently a lecturer II. She holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc.) degree in Economics from the University of Calabar, Nigeria in 2006, and a Master of Science degree (MSc.) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 2012. She is currently working on her PhD dissertation titled: Progressivity, Horizontal Inequity and Re-ranking in health Care Financing in Nigeria which focuses on inequities in the health care financing system and their effect on the distribution of income in Nigeria. She has been granted the University of Calabar study fellowship award twice in 2010 and 2015 in the pursuit of her graduate studies. She teaches intermediate Macroeconomics, Health Economics, Macro Economics, Labour Economics, Health Economics and Economics of Development. She has participated in Several conferences organised both internationally and locally where She presented papers. Her paper on health care Financing and Income Inequality in Nigeria was accepted for presentation at the 2019 International health Economics World Congress held in Basel, Switzerland. She also jointly organised the 9th Annual Ibadan Sustainable Development Conference. She has six journal publications and a book on mathematical Economics which she co-authored. Her research interest are Economics of Health, Labour Economics and Development Economics with specific focus on income inequality and poverty. She is passionate about working on micro economic and micro econometric issues. Her current research interest includes, equity analysis for the household using the social opportunity function and gender participation in the labour market. She is a member of the Nigerian Economic Society (NES) and The International Health Economics Association (iHEA). She is a research fellow at the Health Policy Training and Research Programme (HPTRP) of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria. .