I trained as a Public Health physician in Nigeria and have a ten year background in community medicine and public health practice, research and training, internationally and locally. My past work involved community-based sexual health research, managing reproductive health training programmes and designing integrated client management pathways for locally prevalent reproductive health conditions.

More recently I have worked as a research associate at Imperial College, London, holding a joint post with the Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine and the Centre for Health Management. My work focused on developing a systems approach to assessing country responses to HIV/AIDS. The methodology has being field tested through studies in developing country settings that examined the reciprocal interactions between anti-retroviral treatment scale-up programmes and the wider health system, socio-cultural and development environments in which they are located.

I joined IHHD in March 2006 and am part of a participatory research team exploring the potential impacts of planned Thames Gateway and Olympic regeneration programmes on the health and wellbeing of Black and Minority Ethnic communities in the area. The project involves the formation of a novel partnership with representative community voluntary organisations in the five Olympic Boroughs to facilitate knowledge transfer to the public sector through a community research network. I am also involved in health status, inequalities and needs assessment in London through consulting work for the London Health Commission 2006 “Health in London” report and participation in the Health Forum for London 2012.

• Medicine
• Public Health
• Health Management

Research areas

• Health systems – services interface
• HIV/AIDS
• Mixed methods rapid assessments
• Structural determinants of health
• Health inequalities