Public Health| Health Systems Economics| Health Financing| Policy Analysis| Equity in Healthcare

I did not arrive at public health and health systems economics by accident. I arrived by conviction, shaped by questions the clinic alone could not answer.

As a medical doctor trained in Nigeria, I understood early that treating patients one by one, as meaningful as that work is, addresses the symptoms of a deeper problem. The real questions were obvious. Why do people fall ill but do not seek care even in health facilities close to their homes? Why does a single hospital visit push a family into poverty? Why do well-designed health programmes collapse before they reach the people they were built to serve? Those questions live upstream in the economics, the financing, the policy, and the politics of health systems. 

That realisation set the course of my career.

I have served as a Professor of Public Health and Health Systems Economics at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, where my work has spanned academic research, policy advisory, and the mentorship of the next generation of health reformers. I have contributed to the evolution of the Health Policy Research Group and the IVAN Institute. My areas of focus have included public health, health economics, health financing, policy analysis, and equity in healthcare. These are not separate disciplines to me. They are interconnected levers of the same system.

I have contributed to shaping Nigeria’s national health policy architecture, including the evolution of important institutions within the public health and health financing ecosystem, as well as legislative processes to enhance health policy making and oversight.