Staff Profile

Ogochukwu is a Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy in the School of Pharmacy at Newcastle University. She is a pharmacist by background, with experience across academia, hospital practice, and the pharmaceutical industry. She has held several senior academic and professional leadership roles, including Acting Dean and Head of Clinical Pharmacy, Production Pharmacist, and Academic Advisor in Nigeria. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University, UK, a Master of Medical Science in Public Health from Universiti Malaya, Malaysia and a Master of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Management from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria. She is a Fellow of the West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists (FPCPharm), an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), and a member of the Society for the Study of Addiction, UK.

Her work is strongly interdisciplinary, with research interests spanning clinical pharmacy, community pharmacy, public health, safe medication use, prescription and opioid misuse, and the development of intervention strategies aimed at improving pharmacists' role in opioid misuse and other drugs/substances of abuse. She serves as a reviewer for peer reviewed journals such as Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, Substance abuse and Rehabilitation, Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare and has an established record of publications in peer-reviewed journals. 

• Articles

  • Offu OF, Okeowo D, Visram S, Rathbone AP, Lindsey L. How can community pharmacy teams prevent prescription and over-the-counter opioid misuse in North East England? A qualitative study using the Capability, Opportunity and Motivation Behaviour (COM-B) model. BMJ Open 2025, 15(5), e099801.
  • Offu OF, Visram S, Rathbone AP, Lindsey L. Factors influencing pharmacists’ roles in preventing prescription and over-the-counter opioid misuse: a systematic review and narrative synthesis. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2024, 32(2), 133-145.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

  • Offu OF, Lindsey L, Rathbone A, Visram S. Systematic review of facilitators and barriers to community pharmacists’ role in licit opioid misuse prevention. In: The Royal Pharmaceutical Society Annual Conference. 2022, London: Oxford University Press.