Professor Echezona Ezeanolue is a Nigerian-born physician-epidemiologist trained in both Nigeria and the United States, with more than two decades of experience translating research into practical, scalable health interventions. He is the founding Director of the Center for Translation and Implementation Research (CTAIR) and founder of the Nigeria Implementation Science Alliance (NISA), a nationwide consortium connecting researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to accelerate the translation of evidence into public health policy. He holds professorships in Pediatrics and Public Health, and his research applies implementation science methods to strengthen maternal and child health services, with a particular focus on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in community and congregational settings across Nigeria.
Every study we run is designed to answer a question a policymaker or clinician is actually asking. That is what implementation science means to us — research that does not stop at publication, but follows through to practice.
A congregation-delivered intervention combining prayer, group health education, a safe-delivery 'mama pack,' and on-site HIV testing with same-day ART linkage for pregnant women.
Founded to connect researchers, policymakers, and practitioners across Nigeria, coordinating a nationwide consortium and an annual conference bridging research and practice.
A transdisciplinary hub for research, training, and research administration, coordinating the ICON-3 Practice-Based Research Network across academic, secondary health, and community sites.