Victor Oguoma

Dr Victor M. Oguoma (BSc, MScPH, PhD, MBiostat) is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics and a member of the Let’s Yarn About Sleep Program at the Thompson Institute.

Dr Oguoma joined UniSC in April 2025. Before this time, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health University of Queensland, the Health Research Institute University of Canberra (UC), and a Senior Research Officer at the Menzies School of Health Research Darwin (Menzies). He held an honorary appointment at the Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait.

Dr Oguoma completed his public health PhD studies in cardiometabolic disease epidemiology at Charles Darwin University before taking up an academic appointment at the Menzies where he researched chronic middle ear and respiratory disease in Indigenous children. He then moved to the University of Canberra where he worked on the Kuwait Diabetes Epidemiology Program and the ACT Health and Wellbeing Survey as lead epidemiologist and biostatistician. He recently completed his Senior Research Fellow appointment at the University of Queensland Poche Centre for Indigenous Health. Additionally, he holds a Master of Biostatistics degree from Macquarie University through the prestigious Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia program, a Master of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Medical Parasitology specialty) at Nnamdi Azikiwe University.

Before his relocation to Australia in 2013, Dr Oguoma held several roles in implementing strategies to control neglected tropical diseases in Nigeria, West Africa. Since 2017, he has led and contributed to the design, implementation, and analyses of large-scale randomised controlled trials and epidemiological studies in the Indigenous populations of Australia, sub-Saharan Africa, and diverse populations in Kuwait. He has over 15 years of experience in clinical, public health, epidemiological, and applied biostatistics research across sectors - non-governmental organisations and academia in Australia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Dr Oguoma is passionate about advancing health equity and outcomes through biostatistics, epidemiology, and culturally inclusive methods, especially in chronic disease prevention and management. In collaboration with other researchers, Dr Oguoma has attracted over AU$18.5M in competitive National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC), the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), and International-funded collaborative research grants as Chief Investigator since 2017. He has over 60 published works in peer-reviewed journals of national and international reputation and serves on the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Rural Health as Associate Editor.