Josiah Alamu

Dr. Josiah Alamu, Ph.D., MPH, B.Pharm, Dip P.H. is an Associate Professor in the Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences. He has studied at various locations globally obtaining his Diploma of Public Health and Bachelor of Pharmacy in Nigeria, his Master’s in Public Health in Honolulu and his Ph.D. Epidemiology and Biostatistics in Iowa. Some of his past positions include being a lecturer at Gambia College, production pharmacist for AMC Pharmaceuticals in Nigeria and being an Environmental Health Officer for the Ministry of Health in Nigeria.

He is currently a professor teaching at the NSU Department of Audiology. The courses assigned to him includes but not limited to, Anatomy and Physiology of Hearing, Neurosciences, and Research Methods. Previously, he has taught several courses for NSU Department of Public Health including Global Health, Epidemiology. Biostatistics, Environmental and Occupational Health and Integrated Learning Experience. Prior to joining NSU, he served as the Chair of Department of Public Health University of Illinois at Springfield teaching Science of Disease Discovery, Analytic Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Emerging Infectious Diseases. He is an international researcher with peer-reviewed research publications in which he focused on trends of diarrhea morbidity in Ghana, well-water quality in Liberia, the use of online technology to improve student’s performance in epidemiology, etc.

Dr. Alamu has an undying passion for the field of global health, research methods, and data visualization. He was formerly the principal investigator for a project to conduct the prevalence of Hepatitis C among the homeless in Central Illinois, the current co-investigator of mobile services and homelessness in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, the principal investigator of a community-based project conducting the screening of hypertension and diabetes among rural Ghana and a co-principal investigator conducting water quality assessments in developing countries. While at the University of Illinois, Springfield Dr. Alamu led students and faculty on an outreach mission every summer to the Gambia from 2011 until 2018 where they took their mission so Ghana.