Odichinma (Odi) Akosionu is a 3rd year PhD Student in the Health Services Research, Policy and Administration Program at the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health. She is in the Health Economics track and does research in long term care space with a focus on racial inequities in quality of care and quality of life outcomes. Currently, she works as a Research Assistant at the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health on a National Institute of Health-funded grant focused on system factors and facial disparities in nursing home quality of life and care. She also works as a Research Assistant on a Minnesota state-funded project to develop a legislature approved Assisted Living Report Card System. Prior to this, Odi worked as a Human Services Program Consultant with the Minnesota Department of Human Services where she coordinated state research efforts for the National Core Indicators- Aging and Physical Disabilities Survey and served on the Minnesota State Quality Council in a research capacity. 

Odi holds a master's degree in Public Health from the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health and a bachelor's degree in Human Biology from the University of California, San Diego.