Dr. Isibhakhomen S. EJOH

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	Name: Isibhakhomen S. EJOH
	Designation: Senior Lecturer
	Faculty: PUBLIC HEALTH
	Department: Human Nutrition
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Biography Experienced researcher and university lecturer of over 10 years in Human Nutrition. Her vast and unique cross-functional experience and knowledge spans from research and development to promotion of traditional foods for improving micronutrient intake of women of reproductive age and young children. She has been involved in public health nutrition research and intervention programmes at various levels. Her work currently focusses on linking nutrition, agriculture and health using garden-based nutrition education to promote improvement of school-age children’s nutrition and health through an ecological approach. She has cognate experience in designing and implementing behavioural change nutrition education targeting school-age children and their families. She is involved in research using of garden-based nutrition education in influencing behavioural change in children’s eating habits to improve their nutrition and health. Her research team have developed a curriculum that adequately links gardening, nutrition education, and food demonstration, which can be extended to Nigeria’s primary school curriculum. Further to examine the extent to which micronutrient gap can be bridged among school-age children through vegetable gardens at school and home. She has a track record in leadership capacity development and management; for the past six years, she has successfully initiated and coordinated Kids Nutri-garden™ Vacation School in the Dept of Human Nutrition and Dietetics (based on my research activities). It is an innovative hands-on garden-to-fork food system transformation programme for school-age children and their families. The programme has collaborated with six private primary schools and reached at least five hundred school-age children. She has trained and engaged at least fifty (50) youths to play administrative and technical roles in the garden-to-fork activities of the vacation school. Through these activities, she has acquired skills and networks to effectively plan, conduct, facilitate, monitor and evaluate inter-disciplinary and multi-sectoral projects in nutrition and related development projects. She is very tenacious, and resourceful and she has excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills among others.

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Research

1. Title: Coverage of micronutrient supplements and its associated factors among pregnant women in Ondo state, Nigeria (2022 - 2023).
Funder: Sight and Life, through Nutrition and Health Initiative (NAHI).
Role: Co-investigator

2. Title: Systematic review of nutrition interventions to promote vegetable consumption among school-age children and adolescents in west-africa (2022-2023).
Role: Co-investigator

3. Title: Assessment of the Nutrition Sensitivity of Non-Humanitarian Food Assistance Programmes in Lagos State (2021 - 2022) – Carried out under Strengthening The Mechanisms of the Nutrition Society of Nigeria To Engage Academia Around The Nutrition Agenda In Nigeria (Project ENAN – Engage Nutrition Academia In Nigeria).
Funder – Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation.
Role: Co-investigator

4. Title: Ibadan kids’ nutrition and health survey (I-KNHS); Dietary intake, anthropometry, lifestyle parameters and feeding practices of children aged 4-13.9 years in the city of Ibadan, Nigeria (2019- 2021).
Funder: Société des Produits Nestlé SA Research Grant.
Role: Investigator

5. Title: Feasibility of establishing garden-based nutrition education clubs in primary schools in Nigeria (2019 - 2020).
Role: Principal Investigator

6. Title: Evaluation of modules used in gardening and nutrition education to improve consumption of vegetables among children aged 7-11 years in Ibadan. 2017 – 2018.
Role: Principal Investigator

7. Title: Evaluation of the contribution of O-Meals school feeding programme to total dietary intake of public primary school pupils in Osun state. 2017 – 2018.
Role: Principal investigator

Publications

1. Toromade O. Ejoh, S. I, Adeyemi O. (In Press). Nutrition Sensitive Programming in Non-humanitarian Food Assistance: Findings from a Situation and Readiness Assessment in Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria Journal of Nutritional Sciences

2. Adetola A., Ejoh S. I. (In Press). Feeding Styles, Foods intake and Weight Status of Children 6 -23 Months in Ibadan. Public Health Discoveries

3. Sanusi R. A, Wang D, Ariyo O, Eyinla T. E, Tassy M, Eldridge A. L, Ogundero A, Leshi O, Lenighan Y. M, Ejoh S. I & Aleru E (2022). Food sources of key nutrients, meal and dietary patterns among children aged 4–13 years in Ibadan, Nigeria: Findings from the 2019 Kids Nutrition and Health Study. Nutrients 2022, 14(1), 200

4. Ejoh S. I., Ilori A, Ogunrinde T, Orhue V. (2021). Frequency of Fruit and Vegetable Intake, Modification and Avoidance Behaviours Linked to Chewing Difficulty Among Community-Dwelling Elderly in a Peri-Urban Area in Nigeria. East African Journal of Public Health 15(1), 13 – 24.

5. Wireko-Manu F D, Ejoh SI, Page D, Renard MGC (2020). Estimation of Micronutrient Contents in Traditional Green Leafy Vegetables and Their Potential Contribution to Dietary Recommended Intakes. Journal of Food and Nutrition Sciences 8(1): 15-23. doi: 10.11648/j.jfns.20200801.13

6. Samuel F.O, Ayoola P. B and *Ejoh, S.I (2020). Nutrient, Antinutrient And Sensory Evaluation of Corchorus Olitorius Fruit. Ife Journal of Agriculture. Volume 32, (1); 13 -20

7. Ejoh S. I., Wireko-Manu F. D., Page D. and Renard C. M. G (2019). Traditional green leafy vegetables as underutilised sources of micronutrients in a rural farming community in south-west Nigeria I: estimation of vitamin C, carotenoids and mineral contents. South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition Click Here

9. Ejoh S. I., Wireko-Manu F. D., Page D. and Renard C. M. G (2019). Estimation of folate content of cultivated and uncultivated traditional green leafy vegetables in Nigeria. African Journal of Food Science Vol. 13(9) pp. 191-195, DOI: 10.5897/AJFS2019.1784

10. Ogunkunle MO, Gafari OY, Ejoh SI (2019). Ameliorative effects of okra [Abelmoschus esculentus l. (Moench)] on blood glucose and lipid profile of diet-induced type-2 diabetic wistar rats. African Journal of Pharmaceutical Research & Development Vol. 11 No.1; pp. 008-015

11. Sanusi R.A,Odukoya G.M and Ejoh S. I (2018). Cooked Yield and True Nutrient Retention Values of Selected Commonly Consumed Staple Foods in South-west Nigeria. African Journal of Biomedical Research Vol.21: 147-15

12. Ejoh, S.I. and Samuel, F.O. (2016). Identification of traditional green leafy vegetable resources, their importance and potential for promotion in a rural farming community in southwestern Nigeria: focus group findings and market survey, West African Journal of Foods and Nutrition Vol. 13.1. pp 10-13

13. Adewale, D. A., Ejoh, S.I., and Akinyele, I. O. (2016). Expanding the use of an underutilised legume: nutritional and sensory evaluation of two traditional complementary cereal gruels enriched with sprouted pigeon pea flour, Nigerian Journal of Nutritional Sciences Vol. 37.2. pp 21-29

14. Amusan, E. C., Ejoh, S.I., and Akinyele I. O. (2015). Effect of boiling and steaming methods on the ascorbic acid content of wild and cultivated indigenous green leafy vegetables found in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigerian Journal of Nutritional Sciences Vol.
36.2. pp 59-63

15. Sanusi, R.A., Yusuf F. K, and Ejoh, S.I. (2014). Assessment of dietary diversity of in- school adolescents in Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria, West African Journal of Foods and Nutrition Vol. 12.2. pp 69-77

16. Ejoh, S.I., Obatolu, V. A. , Olanipekun, O. T. and Farinde, E. O. (2013). Extending the use of an underutilised tuber I: Physicochemical and pasting properties of cocoyam (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) flour and its suitability for making biscuits, African Journal of Food Science Vol. 7.9. pp 264-273

17. Ejoh, S.I. and Ketiku, O. A. (2013). Vitamin E content of traditionally processed products of two commonly consumed oilseeds - groundnut (Arachis hypogea) and melon seed (Citullus vulgaris) in Nigeria, Journal of Nutrition and Food Sciences Vol. 3.2. pp 2-5

18. Olanipekun, O. T., Obatolu, V. A., Ejoh, S.I., Farinde, E. O. and Oyarekhua, M. A. (2011). Evaluation of the nutrient and antinutrient contents of two Nigeria underutilised legumes, Moor Journal of Agricultural Research Vol. 12.1. pp 56-63

Supervision

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Grants

1. Société des Produits Nestlé SA research grant (number RDLS018035) for Ibadan Kids Nutrition and health Survey (IKNHS), 2019 - 2021

2. Nuffic Orange Knowledge Programme (OKP) fellowship to participate in the short course “Food systems for healthy and sustainable diets”, in Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI), Netherlands 3 – 21 June, 2019

3. São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) sponsorship to attend the 1st FAPESP-GACD Implementation Science Research Training School in Campina Brazil, 6 – 10 November 2018.

4. Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) conference grant to attend 21st IUNS International Congress of Nutrition (ICN), International Union of Nutrition Sciences (IUNS), Buenos Aires, Argentina. 15 - 20 October, 2017.

5. Fellow, Agropolis Fondation: support obtained in the framework of AWARD programme for a six-month Advanced Science Training in Institut National de Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Avignon, France, September 2013 – March, 2014.

6. The Nutrition Society (UK), travel fellowship to attend the Nutrition Congress Africa (NCA), South Africa, September 2012.

7. University of Ibadan conference support grant to attend the Nutrition Congress Africa

8. (NCA), South Africa, September 2012.

9. Fellowship, African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) of the CGIAR Gender & Diversity Program, Kenya, August 2011.

10. Nevin Scrimshaw International Nutrition Foundation (INF)/Kraft Travel Fellowship to attend 9TH African Nutrition Leadership Programme (ANLP), South Africa, March 2011.

11. IFS/BIOVERSITY/RUFORUM to attend EU-ACP Scientific Research Proposal Writing Workshop for Neglected and Underutilized Species of Crops. July 2010

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Other Interest/Hobbies

I love gardening and co-founded Smart Nutri-garden Solutions, a food system transformation startup social enterprise that helps households establish nutri-gardens in their homes and organisations to improve their nutrition and environment.

I am volunteer for PenKnights Media, an editing and research communication firm, where I am a content writer and editor, and strategic resource mobiliser.

Others
1. Sunday school teacher and co-ordinator in my church.
2. Sewing
3. Graphic design
4. Public speaking
5. Cooking and baking