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Understanding and Bridging Gaps in the Use of Evidence from Modeling for Evidence-Based Policy Making in Nigeria’s Health System
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Education and Society at UoD
Chinyere Mbachu Prince Agwu Felix Abrahams Obi 🇳🇬🇧🇷 Prof Obinna Onwujekwe
#EvidenceToPolicy #KnowledgeTranslation #EBDM

New article alert from HPRG!!
Context-appropriate interventions are required in ASRH. This paper examines acceptability of a community-embedded intervention for ASRH. M-G Ingabire
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Yesterday, HPRG in collaboration with Ebonyi State Ministry of Health concluded a three-day step-down training of officers in charge of PHCs on improving youth-friendly SRH services through gender transformative and intersectional approaches.
#Chinyere Mbachu
#Chinazom Ekwueme

With PHCs in Nigeria we can do more for health. HPRG shows how, by implementing a project, where PHCs are home to adolescents in need of sexual & reproductive health (SRH) services! Safe spaces for SRH is key!
Muhammad Ali Pate IDRC | CRDI Dr. Muyi Aina UNICEF Chinyere Mbachu

Today's activity empowered program officers at state & LGA to recognize different power dynamics that leads to (gender, social/economic) inequalities in young people's access to youth-friendly SRHR services
#Ebonyi State Ministry Health
Chinyere Mbachu

In this video HPRG,
slums residents & health workers speak to their commitments improving healthcare in urban slums.

CHORUSUrbanHealth UN-Habitat Chinyere Mbachu ARISE NPHCDA Muhammad Ali Pate Federal Ministry of Health, NIGERIA World Health Organization (WHO) UNU International Institute for Global Health Sen. Dr Ipalibo Harry Banigo DSSRS Felix Abrahams Obi 🇳🇬🇧🇷
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We are happy to kickstart a week-long engagement with CHORUSUrbanHealth leads and partners from University of Leeds. HPRG project on urban health is scaling up health security for people living in slums in Nigeria. It’s another time to strengthen our science! Chinyere Mbachu

Health security of slum dwellers is threatened by the many unregulated informal health services operational in slums. Where we can’t crowd out the informal with formal, we can look to improving governance/delivery of the informal to be safe at least. CHORUSUrbanHealth Chinyere Mbachu

Over 3 years, our CHORUSUrbanHealth project has progressed through mapping health providers in slums like traditional practitioners, medicine vendors, etc., and linking them with viable primary health centres closest to the slums. Our evidence shows integration works!
Chinyere Mbachu

HPRG & CHORUSUrbanHealth continue evidence translation strides. HPRG as a foremost health policy & systems research engine in West Africa will continue to strengthen the health space of governments using evidence.

Helen Elsey Chinyere Mbachu
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Within the CHORUSUrbanHealth project are projects of innovation touching on key health areas - urban crimes and health, healthcare seeking affecting urban kids, and community responses to water, sanitation/hygiene. HPRG review progress on these projects.
Chinyere Mbachu

Despite the advantages associated with holding a regular census, the last population census in Nigeria was in 2006… for 17 years, the country relies on population data estimates and projections… the implications on health planning are devastating! Federal Ministry of Health, NIGERIA CHORUSUrbanHealth

Quality research output is at the heart of our CHORUSUrbanHealth work on good health for slums. HPRG researchers on a retreat to make sense of field data for quality research outputs. It’s on us to influence health policies/progs using quality evidence. Chinyere Mbachu

TRUTH is the foundation for personal, family, national and societal FREEDOM.

Embrace it as a culture, because no matter how fast a LIE runs, one day, TRUTH will catch up.

'You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” Jn8:32
#Timeless #Boundless

Optimising services for sexual and reproductive health (SRH) for adolescents is top health agenda for Africa. HPRG researchers birth quality scientific outputs after tedious data collection. Goal is to facilitate trusted points for SRH services IDRC | CRDI Chinyere Mbachu

Interested in urban health? Check out special issue Frontiers - Public Health ARISE CHORUSUrbanHealth WHO Urban Health Health Systems Global ARK Foundation Sushil Baral- बटुवा Rumana Huque Prince Agwu Chinyere Mbachu Urbanisation and Health Network University of York Bassey Ebenso Ligia Paina London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Irene Agyepong
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Sign up bityl.co/IQI1 to hear @CHORUS and @ARISE researchers discussing their approach to gender and intersectionality within their research in cities York Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre ARK Foundation HERD International BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health Prince Agwu Chinyere Mbachu

An important element of health research is media assessment. Media nuances and uniqueness influence reach, perception of findings, and usability of evidence. Researchers should take care while using this important component of evidence dissemination.

CHORUSUrbanHealth HPRG

Media can help shape policy through evidence-based reporting. I hope the event went well Prince Agwu

A network to marry research and media! Together, we will raise the voices of science to exceptionally contribute to health systems governance and practice.

It’s an important handshake to scale up actions on our urban health findings, among others!

CHORUSUrbanHealth HPRG