Dr. Onyemaechi Nweke

UPAC’s Social Justice Vision: Equitable economic and human development outcomes for continental and diaspora Africans.

Role of the UPAC Social Justice Program:

1. Advise institutional partners whose work impacts Africans in diaspora and continental Africans on matters related to leveraging an equity framework to maximize their human development impacts.
2. Identify and advance opportunities to increase equitable outcomes for Africans in diaspora and continental Africans in the areas of economic and social well-being, and overall health.

Short Bio for Onyemaechi Nweke, DrPH, MPH

Dr. Onyemaechi Nweke is a health equity leader and practitioner with federal sector work experience spanning 16 years in the areas of environmental justice, health disparities, public-private partnerships to promote equitable outcomes in health and the social causes of health, and environmental health policy. Dr. Nweke is an environmental health scientist by training. She received a Master’s Degree in Environmental and Occupational Health from the Saint Louis University, Missouri, and a Doctorate in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Maryland. Dr. Nweke is interested in the participation of communities of African people in the global economy in ways that advance human development on the African continent and for all African people in diaspora.