Karen Jiobu, MA, DLM (ASCP)

Karen Jiobu has a broad background in clinical laboratory medicine and community service projects spanning over 30 years. She has been spending the last 10 years working to eliminate hepatitis B by working with Asian American Community Services, Asian Services in Action, Asian Festival Health and Wellness Pavilion, and the Ohio Asian American Health Coalition. She has collaborated on various research projects, including the data collection for Hep B Free database, New York University Center for the Study of Asian American Health for Ohio, as well as the Health through Action program funded by the Asian and Pacific Islander Health Forum and the Kellogg Foundation (2008-2012), which resulted in a Poster presentation at the American Public Health Association National Convention in October 2011 and a published article in the Journal of Investigative Medicine in 2013. She wrote the first draft of FOA for the CDC grant “Early identification and linkage to care among foreign-born persons with hepatitis B” for the Ohio Asian American Coalition, which was successfully funded. Mrs. Jiobu has previously served on the National Task Force on Hepatitis B’s Executive Board as well as a Regional Director. She is also a member of the Hep B United coalition and the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable.