Emmanuella Ngozi Asabor, MPhil
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Biography
Emmanuella Asabor is a joint MD-PhD Candidate in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Yale University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. Her research sits at the intersection of social medicine, epidemiology, and global health policy. Emmanuella has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree and a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Scholar for her research and advocacy in COVID-19, police violence, asylum medicine, and global health. Her scholarship has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Vanity Fair, USA Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and more.
She has been invited to speak nationally and internationally including a broadcasted sit-down with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the 2022 Forbes International Women’s Day 30/50 Summit in Abu Dhabi as well as a plenary panel at the 2023 National Tuberculosis Conference in Atlanta, GA.
She earned her bachelor’s degree at Harvard University where she studied the history of medicine and global health. She also holds a master’s degree in African Studies from the University of Cambridge. Prior to Yale, she shaped supportive housing policy in New York City through a joint NYU and New York State Department of Health initiative. In her spare time, she enjoys travel, cooking, Nigerian literature, and occasionally re-living her opera-singing past.
Education & Training
- MPhilUniversity of Cambridge
- ABHarvard University (2009)
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Google Health-L’Oréal Research Award for Cutaneous Sarcoidosis | Skin of Color Society | 2024 |
Inaugural Olusegun Salako Research Excellence Award | Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas | 2023 |
Research Excellence Award Finalist | Yale Equity Research and Innovation Center | 2023 |
Office of the Director Diversity Supplemental Award | National Institutes of Health | 2022 |
30 Under 30 in Healthcare | Forbes | 2022 |
Health Policy Research Scholarship | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | 2020 |