Staff Profile

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.

Qualifications:

• MPH: European Master in Public Health (First Class Honours) - University College Dublin, Ireland
• MSc Governance and Leadership in European Public Health - Maastricht University, Netherlands
• Master of Public Health - University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• MSc in Pharmaceutical Microbiology - University of Ibadan, Nigeria
• BSc in Microbiology (2:1 Honours)- University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

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

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

• Articles

  • Jagusiewicz A, Uteh CO, Götz JP, Robertz J, Zijlman MA, Siepmann I. Centralized vaccine procurement in the post-COVID-19 European Union. South Eastern European Journal of Public Health 2023.
  • Ingram C, Downey V, Roe M, Chen Y, Archibald M, Kallas KA, Kumar J, Naughton P, Uteh CO, Rojas-Chaves A, Shrestha S, Syed S, Cléirigh Büttner F, Buggy C, Perrotta C. COVID-19 Prevention and Control Measures in Workplace Settings: A Rapid Review and Meta-Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021, 18(15), 7847.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

  • Uteh CO. The Time is Now: Urgent Need to Tackle Childhood Pneumonia Deaths in Nigeria. In: The 12th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases (ISPPD-12). 2022, Toronto, Canada: Kenes Group.

• Report

  • Tanner S, Still M, Harris B, Haston S, Potter R, Uteh CO, Sadiq A, Al-Assaf A, Ghasri S, Johnson EE, Garcia Gonzalez-Moral S, Mkwashi A, Craig D, Pearson F. Emerging Technologies for Improving Musculoskeletal Health: An Evidence Gap Map. Orthopaedic Research UK: NIHR Innovation Observatory in partnership with Orthopaedic Research UK, 2024.