Dr. Agor is a political nurse scientist, a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, and a certified HIV primary care provider. He is developing a program of research on examining the mental health effects of structural stigma on sexual (SGD[LGBTQ+]) population. Before joining Penn Nursing Ph.D. program, he earned a DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice) from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), where he specialized in the clinical assessment of multiple minority stress for SGD with intersecting minoritized identities (Race and ethnic minority or REM) and graduated as an Interprofessional Distinguished Scholar. He is passionate about addressing structural issues that foster and perpetuate health inequalities for minoritized and marginalized communities.
Dr. Agor is currently the co-leader for the southeast region of the International Society of Psychiatric Nursing. He was a Chancellor's American Professoriate scholar at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He served on the UNC-Chapel Hill LGBTQ Center Roundtable and the Provost's Committee for LGBTQ Life. Dr. Agor regularly presents at international, national, and regional conferences on topics ranging from SGD and REM mental health to novel evidenced-based psychiatric treatments such as nutritional psychiatry. He is a Jonas scholar alumna. Fellow: Rural Interprofessional scholar, American Nurses Association Minority Fellowship Program, Fontaine Predoctoral Fellow, and Eidos Predoctoral Fellow at The University of Pennsylvania. He was born and raised in Nigeria, West Africa. His hobbies include hiking, cooking, and traveling.