Dr Victoria Igbinomwanhia is a public health physician, research scientist, Program Area Lead, and Manager of the Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health unit (MNCH) of the Prevention Care and Treatment Department. She provides oversight and technical assistance on program implementation of MNCH related matters among People Living with HIV (PLHIV), including Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS (PMTCT), cervical cancer screening & treatment across more than 300 Health Care Facilities in IHVN PEPFAR Supported States.
She has also provided oversight on the implementation of Sexual Reproductive Health integration into the Antiretroviral Treatment Clinic and Key Population One Stop Shops (KP OSS) among PLHIV in health facilities across four States funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Dr. Igbinomwanhia currently oversees the implementation of the Emergency Food Relief Project for vulnerable children in two Nigerian States, a Sternstunden-funded project.
As a research scientist, she contributes to existing body of knowledge through operational research during program implementation. She is the Nigerian Co-Investigator (Co-I) and Fellow of the Network for Oncology Research in sub-Sahara Africa (NORA) a multi-country consortium aimed at contributing to a significant reduction in cancer-related morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. As Co-I, she oversees multi-site study implementation of research tasks establishing evidence-based Breast Cancer and Cervical Cancer screening and treatment pathways for effective cancer control strategies. She is the co-chair of the IHVN Ethics Committee providing support for Principal Investigator regulatory and ethical submissions within the International Research Center of Excellence (IRCE) at IHVN.
