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CHARLES NKWOALA
Professional Profile
Nkwoala Chiaka Charles is a community nutritionist with expertise in nutrition education. He is presently a lecturer and PhD candidate at Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Nigeria. Charles has been involved in several community based nutrition education activities – facilitating voluntary adoption of healthy eating behaviours and lifestyles at the individual and community levels, whilst building the capacity of health professionals.
He worked with the Nutrition and Consumer Protection Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) from 2012 to 2015 in developing and piloting the FAO ENACT (Education for Effective Nutrition in Action) Professional Training Course in Nutrition Education and has since then been training lecturers within and outside Nigeria on the use of the ENACT module. In 2016 he facilitated the UNICEF supported training of Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Counsellors and Breast Feeding Support Groups on MUAC Measurement in Abia and Anambra States, Nigeria and was the Dietary Supervisor (South East Team) for the 2021 National Food Consumption and Micronutrient Survey in Nigeria. He has also been involved in several studies on promoting exclusive breastfeeding, IYCF and micronutrient intakes, some of which include Predictors of Supportive Practices of Fathers towards Exclusive Breastfeeding of Infants in Selected Communities of Abia and Akwa Ibom States (2019), Characteristics and micronutrient intakes of exclusively and nonexclusively breastfeeding mothers in Imo state (2015), Poor Knowledge Among Primary Health Care Workers: A challenge to Appropriate Infant and Young Child Feeding (2015), Breastfeeding knowledge, Beliefs and Practices of Mothers in Umuahia North Local Government: A Baseline Study (2013) and Assessment of Anaemia and Iron Status of School Age Children (Aged 7-12 years) in Rural Communities of Abia State, Nigeria (2010).
Charles is an active member of several national and international professional societies including Nutrition Society of Nigeria, Nutrition Society UK, Society for Nutrition Education and Behaviour USA, and Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology. He is the immediate past National General Secretary and currently the National Financial Secretary of the Nutrition Society of Nigeria. Charles was featured in the Nutrition Society UK Gazette winter 2021 and FAO World Food Day Celebrations (My Actions) in Rome (2019). He also serves in several research and administrative committees at the University, State and National levels.