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Staff Profile

Cyril Onwuelazu Uteh

Research Assistant (Evidence Synthesis & Horizon Scanning)

Background

Cyril Onwuelazu Uteh is a Microbiologist and a Public Health professional with over seven years of experience working in the field, and in public health laboratories as a: health educator, monitoring and evaluation officer, laboratory analyst, and non-profit coordinator. He holds professional experiences from the Global South & North and across the Trans-Atlantic.

Prior to joining Newcastle University, Cyril worked with the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), and the Ministry of Health Oyo State in Nigeria. He currently consults for the Academy of Communication in Healthcare (ACH) as a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consultant.


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Research

Cyril's research interests revolve around evidence synthesis, health technology assessment, public health surveillance, and health inequalities. He works with the NIHR Innovation Observatory monitoring health technologies and developing briefings to inform the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on emerging and re-emerging innovative health technologies to appraise.


Current research experience:

  • Co-supervising master's dissertation for MPH students
  • Co-supervising research project for the North East NIHR Methodology Internship Programme


His previous research experiences included:

  • Investigating the existing funding mechanisms for antimicrobial resistance research and development
  • Exploring the links between the level of antimicrobial usage in hospital wards, and the abundance of antimicrobial resistance genes in hospital sewages at the ward level
  • Assessing the antibiotic susceptibility patterns of Escherichia coli clinical isolates against different brands of ceftriaxone available in Ibadan, Nigeria
  • Evaluating the occurrence of Salmonella and Vibrio species in frozen and thawed Mackerel (Trachurus trachurus) retailed in Choba, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
  • Appraising immunisation coverage and childhood pneumonia deaths in Nigeria
  • Evaluating COVID-19 prevention and control measures in workplaces
Teaching

Cyril served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the PHPS20010 Module at the University College Dublin, Ireland, during the 2021 academic year, where he:

  • Tutored undergraduate medical students in small groups on public health, and biostatistics introductory courses
  • Examined and graded students' group presentations on selected public health emergency topics
Publications