A collaborative network linking frontline clinicians with practice-based implementation research.
ICON-3 links twelve secondary health facilities, its Innovation Labs, each paired with a tertiary hospital and a community centre across Nigeria's six geopolitical zones, forming a 36-site consortium serving a population of more than 5 million people.
By embedding research directly in frontline care settings, the network contributes study cohorts drawn from real, diverse patient populations, generating evidence positioned to influence national healthcare policy rather than publishing for its own sake.