Dr Michelle King-Okoye

Dr Michelle King-Okoye is a Lecturer in Nursing Studies at the School of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests are marginalisation and health for ethnic minority communities. Her current research examines Covid-19 among ethnic minority communities in developed and developing countries focusing on food security, health related quality of life, vaccine hesitancy and algorithmic bias for ethnic minorities.

She is the founder of the Ethnicity and Covid-19 Research Consortium comprised of international researchers. Michelle is also a member of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committee and the Ethics committee at the School of Health in Social Science. She was recently invited to chair a joint United Nations and MESAS 2021 conference where she presented on algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence for ethnic minority communities. She was invited keynote speaker presenting on ‘Resilience among Ethnic Minority Communities’ for the 2021 PGR conference.