Ntoimo

Dr Lorretta Favour Chizomam Ntoimo is a Sociologist/Demographer. She obtained her PhD in 2012 at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and started her academic career in the same year as an Assistant Lecturer at Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State, Nigeria. She was a Fogarty International Centre/University Research Centre postdoctoral fellow at the Demography and Population Studies Programme, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa in 2014. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Demography and Social Statistics, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria where she also serves as the acting Head of Department. She is an Associate of Women’s Health and Action Research Centre, a leading NGO in Nigeria where she contributes to research planning, data management, and writing for publication. Dr Ntoimo is a highly motivated and result-oriented researcher whose goal is to contribute to family demography, singlehood research, maternal, child and adolescent health in Africa. She is skilled in quantitative and qualitative data analysis using different software. She has participated in various capacities as a team leader, collaborator, field supervisor, and project coordinator in many funded research projects. She has published many articles, book chapters and one co-edited book. She serves in the Editorial Board of three journals.