Elochukwu is engaging anthropology to ask questions such as what should be prioritized (and how) in the allocation and distribution of resources and care during humanitarian emergencies. Before coming to Rice University, he completed his bachelor's degree training in Nigeria in sociology and anthropology. With the field trainings he received intervening in the country’s critical health spaces, he proceeded to the National Taiwan University where he bagged his MSc in the field of global health.

Over a decade later, several institutional and non-profit organizations including the University of Maryland (UMB), FHI 360, Catholic Relief Services, the WHO and UNAIDS, among others, have relied on his experience to carry out interventions in Malaria, HIV, and Tuberculosis prevention; viral hepatitis control, vaccines safety, and the COVID-19 pandemic deceleration.

Now at Rice Anthropology, he engages Fiji as his field site. He believes that Oceania’s health security is vital to not only the Pacific region but to the rest of the world. Either way, we think he’s found a safe haven from Houston’s scorching summer.

Listening to opera is his next best thing. His previous research have appeared here and here. He is developing a new manuscript on refusing despair in the durative present.