ICHAD Speaker Series: Tuesday, Oct 15 | 04:00 PM – 05:00 PM | Dr. Oliver Ezechi

Brain Gain with Global Public Health: A Tale of Capacity-supporting Strategies from Nigeria to the U.S. with Policy Implications

Join us for the October ICHAD Speaker Series featuring Distinguished Visiting Scholar Dr. Oliver Ezechi, an OBGYN physician, Director of Research at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Nigerian Ministry of Health, Professor of Public Health at Lead City University, and Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Calabar.

Dr. Ezechi specializes in women’s and adolescent health and infectious diseases, particularly HIV, cervical cancer, and Hepatitis B and leads NIMR’s HIV treatment center, which has cared for over 25,000 patients since 2002 with support from PEPFAR and is the founding Director of the Centre for Reproduction and Population Health Studies. He pioneered a program to prevent mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV, achieving zero MTCT in the past five years through a unique public-private partnership approach. He chairs the Institutional Review Board and serves on both State and National Ethics Committees.

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