Dr. Emilomo Ogbe (M.B.B.S., M.A) is a medical doctor and researcher with experience in Sexual and Reproductive Health programme management, policy analysis and development in West and East Africa and South East Asia. She just completed a Research Fellowship with the University of Ghent- International Centre for Reproductive Health, where she worked on Gender based violence and SRHR service provision for marginalised populations especially Female sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya. She is a graduate from the Masters in Gender and Development at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (2012). Her dissertation on Pelvic Inflammatory Disease in Nigeria explored the political and moral economy around the prioritisation and management of sexually transmitted diseases.
Prior to pursuing a Master’s degree, she obtained a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from the College of Medicine at the University of Lagos, and worked in clinical medicine. She also worked on gender analysis and mainstreaming of health policies and programmes with the Department of Gender, Women and Health at the World Health Organisation in Geneva and with the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights in Manila. Her research interests include bioethics, exploring the influence of biopolitics in constructing ‘heteronormative sexual identities’, as well as how these factors influence access to sexual and reproductive health services for sexual minorities.