Chioma Okafor is a dedicated public health professional passionate about tackling health and development inequities by harnessing local knowledge and capacity to improve development results. Chioma’s professional and educational background is in Global Health, Health Behavior, and Project Management. She is currently consulting with community-based organizations in Houston while seeking new opportunities in global health and development.
With over ten years of experience in global public health, Chioma has led programmatic, technical, and policy initiatives across the United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia. Her expertise spans local capacity strengthening, partner capacity development, OVC and PEPFAR DREAMS programming, global immunization initiatives, and community-led approaches to health and development. She has held senior roles at organizations including Global Communities, Pact, Project HOPE, and a CDC-supporting business consulting firm.
She currently serves on the board of the Bokamoso Youth Foundation, a non-profit that provides financial support, mentoring, and guidance to the staff and young people of the Bokamoso Life Centre in Winterveldt, South Africa, and as a board member of Give to Africa, an organization supporting community-based organizations across Africa.
Chioma is passionate about the intersection of storytelling and development, and hosts Rooted and Rising, a podcast exploring stories of purpose, impact, and change. She has written opinion pieces on food insecurity and GBV prevention, and has been featured on Devex, The Africa Report, The Republic, and BusinessDay Nigeria.