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Peer-reviewed research, abstracts & publications
Contributing evidence-based insights to healthcare policy, market systems, and innovation across Africa.
Research & expertise across six domains
Decades of research informing policy, practice, and innovation in African healthcare.
Total Market Approach & Health Systems
Frameworks for integrating public, private, and NGO sectors to maximise health market efficiency and equity.
Public-Private Collaboration
Models for sustainable partnerships that align incentives across government, donors, and the private sector.
Sustainable Healthcare Financing
Innovative financing mechanisms that expand coverage without creating dependency on donor funding.
Pharmacists as Healthcare Leaders
Expanding the clinical and leadership role of pharmacists in Africa's healthcare ecosystem.
Digital Health & Innovation
Pathways for scaling technology-driven health solutions in low-resource settings across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Evidence-Based Programme Design
Integrating rigorous data collection, monitoring, and evaluation into health programme architecture.
Evidence without execution is just opinion.Dennis Aizobu
Perspectives & Analysis
The Pharmacist's Expanded Role in Africa's Health Ecosystem
I have watched patients walk past government clinics — empty, locked, or simply too far — and into a community pharmacy instead. The pharmacist who receives them is doing the work of a GP, a counsellor, and a supply chain manager, often for a few hundred naira. We need to stop pretending this is not happening and start building systems around it.
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Why the Total Market Approach is the Future of Healthcare in Africa
Somewhere in the mid-2000s, I sat in a Lagos warehouse surrounded by boxes of subsidised malaria nets that would never reach the people they were meant for. That afternoon changed how I think about healthcare markets — and why charity alone will never be enough.
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Charting the path to the implementation of universal health coverage policy in Nigeria through the lens of Delphi methodology
BMC Health Services Research
Stakeholders' perception of a total market approach to HIV self-testing (HIVST) for the private sector in Nigeria
BMC Public Health
Enablers and barriers to effective HIV self-testing in the private sector among sexually active youths in Nigeria: A qualitative study using journey map methodology
PLoS ONE
Assessment of integrated community case management of childhood illness (iCCM) practices by trained patent and proprietary medicine vendors (PPMVs) in Ebonyi and Kaduna states, Nigeria
BMC Health Services Research
Public health implications of endocrine disrupting chemicals in drinking water and aquatic food resources in Nigeria: A state-of-the-science review
Science of The Total Environment
Effects of behaviour change communication on hypertension and diabetes related knowledge, attitude and practices in Imo and Kaduna States: a quasi-experimental study
BMC Public Health
Common childhood illnesses: a cross-sectional study of commodity stocking patterns and management knowledge among patent and proprietary medicine vendors in Nigeria
Archives of Public Health
Hypertension and Diabetes Management Practices Among Healthcare Workers in Imo and Kaduna States, Nigeria: An Exploratory Study
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
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