Ogbochi McKinney

Dr. Ogbochi McKinney-McDaniels has over 17 years of experience in different areas of public health and non-profit organizations. Her areas of expertise are Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Statistics, Research Methods, and Nutrition. Dr. McKinney-McDanies' experience ranges from being a program planner, researcher, program evaluator, epidemiologist, community engagement specialist, grant writer, and consultant. In these various positions, she developed a trained the trainer's nutrition and health education curriculum for a local county public health department while advocating on the national level for health policy reform. She assisted with the planning of programs to reach Spanish speaking population and churches in two local counties in California. Dr. McKinney-McDaniels developed programs to help increase HIV testing among youth and women in Sub-Saharan Africa while engaging HIV-positive women on continuum of care. Annually, she travels to West Africa where she organizes health screenings and engages communities on health disparities, access to care, and maternal and child health. She consults with non-profits on fundraising approaches, and on process, impact, and outcome measures. Her research interests are HIV and AIDS, antiretroviral therapy (ART); food security/nutrition; infectious and emergent diseases; maternal and child health; reproductive health and health disparities; mental/psychosocial health; and religion and its effect on health.

Below are some of her research works:

PUBLICATIONS

Toki, H., McKinney, O., Bonome, J. & Sturz, D. (2024). The Silence Impact of Women's Experiences of Homelessness. International Journal on Homelessness 4(2), 1-21.

Kinkade, N., McKinney, O., Garrett, L., & Bonome, J. (2023). Assessment of Program Effectiveness of Counseling Services in 911 Telecommunication Centers. Crisis, Stress, and Human Resilience: An International Journal 4(3), 169-104.

McKinney, O., Joubi, V., Sturz, D., & Bonome, J. (2022). Assessment of Factors Contributing to Californians' Perceptions of COVID-19 Information Dissemination. Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology 14(1), 35-44. https://doi.10.5897/JPHE2021.1374

McKinney, O., Sturz, D., Mukaire, P., Brown, L., etc. (2020). Effectiveness of the medical response teams to the 2014 Ebola outbreak: African immigrants' perceptions. Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology 12(4), 349-356. https://doi.org/10.5897/JPHE2020.1295

McKinney, O., Banta, J., Garrett, L. & Mukaire, P. (2019). Disability and Mental Health Status as Determinants of Food Insecurity among Immigrants in California. Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9 (2): 15-28. doi:10.18848/2160-1933/CGP/v09i02/15-28.

McKinney, O., Pearce, D., Banta, J., Mataya, R., Muula, A., Crounse, J., Mukaire, P., & Matipwiri, P. A (2017). Evaluation of Pill Counts Adherence with Self-Reported Adherence in Assessing Antiretroviral Therapy Behavior of Women living with HIV at a Faith-based Clinic in Malawi. HIV: Current Research 1:120.

Banta, J. & McKinney, O. (2016). Faith-based hospitals and psychiatric inpatient care in California, 2002-2011. Springer-Journal of Religion and Health 55:787, doi:10.1007/s10943-015-0175-6.

McKinney, O., Modeste, N., Lee, J., & Gleason, P. (2015). Predicting Malawian Women's Intention to Adhere to Antiretroviral Therapy. Journal of Public Health Research 4:533, 8 pages, doi: 10.4081/jphr.2015.533

Banta, J., Khoie-Mayer, R., Somaiya, C., McKinney, O. & Segovia-Siapco, G. (2015). Mental health and food consumption among California children 5-11 years of age. Journal of Public Health Nutrition 1-17, dOI: 10.1177/0260106015599511.

McKinney, O., Modeste, N., Lee, J., Gleason, P., & Maynard-Tucker, G. (2014). Determinants of antiretroviral therapy adherence among women in southern Malawi: Healthcare providers' perspectives. AIDS Research and Treatment, vol. 2014, Article ID 489370, 9 pages, doi:10.1155/2014/489370