Thank you Prince Harry and Meghan for joining us in Nigeria to learn more about how we ensure children don’t just survive but thrive ❤️

Arguably my favorite stop/spot at Heathrow Airport where I jam and congregate with other #bookaddicts who ain't ready to be weaned off their endless cravings for new knowledge to open up their minds to ask questions and find answers !

Health Systems Global WHSmith.co.uk #BookLovers 📚 London Review of Books

A friend’s dad was a civil servant who died and left over 30 houses. They have all been sold and the kids no longer live in Benin City except for the eldest in their ancestral home. They are all hustling like us today. It made me see the ephemeral nature of value and existence.

Very surprised to see this announcement on a matter that is far from being concluded.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration is focused in the health sector on expanding financial protection for all Nigerians, not only a few privileged ones.

The forces that held back

Please read our new HealthPolicyPlanning paper: “Unfair knowledge practices in global health: a realist synthesis” doi.org/10.1093/heapol…

We systematise the complaints literature in GH using epistemic injustice + pose/gaze + realist frameworks.

HT: Prince Prince Claus Chair & ARC DECRA

Register for the 7th #BHCPF #Webinar : us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Federal Ministry of Health, NIGERIA NPHCDA NHIA Nigeria. Nemsas NCDC World Health Organization (WHO) World Bank Nigeria USAID Gates Foundation Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Nigeria Health Watch LisdelNig World Bank Health HealthSystemsConsult CHAI Results for Development Sydani Group McKinsey & Company NOIPolls

Check out the video excerpts from the IDRC-funded ECOVA Project Policy Brief and Manuscript Writing Workshop and Capacity Strengthening on Gender Considerations organized by AfHEA in partnership with Africa CDC and UNECA for Consultants from 10 countries: youtu.be/5_lXUlwM9Bk

I'm excited for the second edition of our state health insurance report. Inspired by the excellent work from BudgIT Nigeria we created a first-of-its kind report on progress in state health schemes and are set to build on it later in the year.

1st one here - reports.wellahealth.com

What does growth look like when you are building from the bottom in Africa? For some, it is making a lot of money while doing the same thing for a very long time after capturing a niche. For others it is expansion beyond where you started from into new horizons.

Happy Mother’s Day to Michelle Obama and all the moms out there!

Michelle, thank you for all that you do for our girls. Today and every day, we celebrate you.

And a big thank you to all the mothers and mother figures out there who provide us love, inspiration and support, often

Please watch this amazing keynote on gaps in knowledge translation by Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi (editor-in-chief PLOS Global Public Health & Director APHRC)!

'Academics are 5 m above the ground and citing science amongst themeselves, and everyone else is at ground level'

youtube.com/watch?v=k-qSnW…

Please read this brilliant 'global health' review of Teju Cole's Tremor, by Mandip Aujla: thelancet.com/journals/lance…

'Works of fiction can... bring fresh perspectives on [concerns about] representation, lived experiences, history, and hierarchies of knowledge [in global health].'

Excited to share the draft cover for the Nigerian edition of my book, forthcoming later this year from Noirledge Publishing Noirledge Publishing based in #Ibadan . Thanks to Servio and the team for their great work on this so far!

Listen to my keynote speech at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Global Science Summit at the link below 👇👇👇
Never expected to pack so much in 12 minutes, but it happened...

Comments?
#WeAreAfrica
#IamAPHRC
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Rush hour in Lome, Togo. The Chinese build and we buy.
I have no problem with that other than the fact that 90% of the people moving this morning are likely going to help sell more Chinese products. There’s need in Africa and the Chinese are meeting that need. What are we doing?

Join our partners and friends for the opening of Oluseun Onigbinde Resource Centre, a community library, resource hub and skills acquisition center.

More details: onigbindecentre.org

The reason you have an MTN in Africa today is not because a poor boy from South Africa got VC funding and became a billionaire. I know some others try to force a similar narrative but it is not true.

People gained experience, put together plans, and then got investors. No

Here’s the story that has kept Daniel Ojukwu in ⁦Nigeria Police Force⁩ incarceration without formal charges or arraignment before the Court of Law.

Daniel was only fulfilling his constitutional role of demanding answers for the use of public resources.

#FreeDanielOjukwu

'People have been so anesthetized to corruption that when a matter like this humongous stealing (of Abia Airport funds) is mentioned, some people get us distracted by arguing about where it was said and if the actors saw the report!'
- Dr. Alex Otti, CFR.
Governor, Abia State

Public Health Professionals Must Engage The Public. Communications Training Is Key

My new piece on Forbes

forbes.com/sites/madhukar…