Dr. Afiong Oboko Oku is a Consultant Community Physician and Senior Lecturer with the Department of Community Medicine, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital/ University of Calabar. She is a fellow of the West African College of Physicians (Community Health), has a masters in Public Health from the prestigious University of Ibadan and currently completed PhD studies in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway. Her interests include; Health education/communication, health policy and management, Epidemiology and Bio statistics. She is interested in conduct of Qualitative research, HIV/AIDS research and Global Health. She is involved in training of resident doctors, post graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of Community Medicine University of Calabar and has successfully mentored and supervised many students. She is also currently the Residency Training Coordinator in the Department of Community medicine. Dr Oku has worked on several international projects including Communicate to Vaccinate Project 2 funded by the Norwegian research council, Documentation of Family planning Efforts in Cross River state funded by Expand net/ E2A and Pathfinder international.