Background
The AfriWorld Health and Related Research programme is a platform that brings together Nigerian, African, and global health care professionals, both home-based and in diaspora, to enable African citizens to benefit from the best available expertise in different disease areas.
Supported by global research collaborations facilitated by Afrihero and Worldhero 3e platforms, www.oseluxworldhero3e, www.icred7e.com, it has deep links among global medical experts, hospitals, and academic researchers, who provide world-leading services in their areas of specialisation.
The core innovative healthcare research, interventions and services, are based in affiliate university teaching hospitals, biomedical university faculties, public hospitals, and private clinics in different countries.
The related evidence-based performance evaluations of the interventions for success are led by the School of Statistics and Information Modelling in Afrihero and Worldhero 3E, www.oseluxworldhero3e.com, which is chaired by Professor Patrick Oseloka Ezepue, Director of Research and Innovation of these outfits.
In these undertakings we coerce best-of-best models by creating checklists of best practices around the globe, combining them into an alphabet of innovation and creativity, which is augmented by our distinctive analytical protocols in related Worldhero (ICRED) Schools, www.oseluxworldher3e.com, www.icred7e.com.
For example, in Real-World Evidence (RWE) and Health Economics Modelling (HEM) projects, we explore the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, similar centres in UK Russell Group universities (for example initiative in HEM at the University of York, UK, and MSc| PhD programmes in HEM at the University of Sheffield, UK), US Ivy League universities, world-leading institutes and organisations, and related practices in UN organs, under the auspices of ICRED School of Global Issues and World Systems, and combine their contributing perspectives on any project we undertake.
Consequently, also as part of the Integration of Knowledge Practices in the wider RIAT engagements that characterise our approach to real-world research – Research, Integration of knowledge, Applications, and Teaching – we start every project with critical literature reviews of the cutting-edge frontiers, methodological protocols, and cogent applications.
The review include systematic reviews and meta-analyses tools, as well as deep insight development of the ideas, linked to core themes of the project. This capacity to a) interrogate current understandings and challenging problems for their implications for innovative theories, research, practices and policies, and b) adopt a deeply multidisciplinary approach to resolving the problems (exemplified by practices in our ICRED School of Advanced Multidisciplinary Studies), arguably puts us atop the food chain of excellence in research, teaching, learning, assessments, consulting, and community services in academia, industry, business, and government settings.
We originated in the International Centre for Research and Enterprise Development (ICRED), UK, a deep-seating Research Methods Canvas (c) which stimulates rigorous, forensically-detailed, and advanced research into any phenomena, and use seven criteria of contributions to knowledge to milk the emerging insights for relevant stakeholder outcomes and gains. See the appendix to Ezepue et al (2019) at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344616239.
The research remits
Health and population research that:
- Emphasizes preventative health and well-being
- Builds related capacities in Africa through innovative training, and
- Enhances policy engagement and communication
Hence, national health research and interventions that:
- Engage individuals and communities to promote health, well-being and proactive lifestyle management
- Ensures healthy development, behaviours and environments, and
- Addresses known and emerging threats to health and responds efficaciously to outbreaks
- Applies received best practices in private and public health management.
The technical areas of research include:
- Ageing population and health management practices
- Education and youth development
- Business model and services innovations for health systems and interventions management
- Telemedicine and related efficiency/performance modelling in health delivery systems
- Global health assessments, improvements, and worker productivity in different industry sectors
- Population dynamics and disease modelling
- Health economic modelling (HEM)
- Health technology assessment (HTA), and
- Biostatistics and clinical research trials.
Strengthening research capacity
- Research collaboration with universities and clinical research organisations (CROs)
- Contract research for CROs in biostatistics and clinical trials
- Developing related training courses
- PhD and post-doctoral research fellowships.
Policy engagement and public intellectual work
- Policy engagement with governments and ministries of health
- Communication of research and best-practice results
- Embedding international clinical excellence and standards in national health systems.
Global Institute for Advanced Studies in Evidence-Based Medicine (GLIASEM)
Given that AfriWorldhero3e serves as a knowledge aggregator and arch-node in structuring global networks related to different ICRED Schools, we recall the following details in the School of Medical Sciences at www.oseluxworldhero3e.com.
In GLIASEM, we coalesce international collaborations in evidence-based health and well-being among leading university schools, faculties, institutes, centres, and research programmes in government agencies, and the private sector, including pharmaceutical firms and clinical research organisations.
The aim is to collate checklists of innovations among this broad canvas of knowledge production in basic and applied research, into best-of-best organising principles for world-beating, advanced, and interdisciplinary graduate research up to PhD levels, in the following areas, listed in no particular order of importance.
- The above research remits
- Public health: interdisciplinary research, systematic reviews and meta-analyses of issues and related evidence bases, behavioural modelling, interventions, policy and communications, including Nudge Theory, heuristic analyses, simulations, scenario modelling, and theory of constraints
- Public health logistics, supply chain management, policy and operational improvements, roles of public and private stakeholders
- Applied informatics, performance measurement, and dashboards for improving strategy
- Virology and Vaccinology
- Mathematical biology
- Infectious diseases of humans
- Pharmacology & Pharmacognosy
- Basic biomedical sciences – Biochemistry, Microbiology, etc.
- Nutritional biochemistry
- Molecular Biology
- Genetics
- Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Biomedicine
- Biotechnology
- Epidemiology and biostatistics
- Experimental pathology
- Systems biology
- Links with climate change and social anthropology
- Links with environmental change, deforestation, biodiversity, toxicology and management
- Psychological medicine
- Regenerative medicine and plastic surgery
- Medical engineering and physics
- Clinical research and drug development in multi-environments
- Joint research aimed at tackling globally challenging problems in health and well-being
- Special focus on key disease areas, pandemics and their socio-behavioural correlates – cancer (oncology), HIV, Covid-19, diabetes, Hepatitis B and C, etc.
- Mapping and collating innovation checklists from centres of excellence e.g. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases in Ede, Nigeria, etc.
- Living in harmony with nature: bioremediation, cf. Tim Ferris’ ‘The 4-Hour Body’, and Patrick Holford’s ‘6 Weeks to the Super Health’, nutrition and dietetics, etc.
- Interfaces with the Schools of Computing and Information Technologies, Statistics and Information Modelling, and Integrated Business Analytics and Development in AfriWorldhero3e, www.oseluxworldhero3e.com, resulting primarily in life-saving medical devices and apps
- Hence, related roles of Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, geospatial and geodemographic modelling (e.g. ArcGIS), data-driven insight development and business modelling, statistical forecasting, multivariate analysis, mixed research methods, and myriad data visualisation tools in creating dynamically self-improving super-forecasting platforms, which probe differential impacts of global pandemics on different socio-economic segments of countries, enabling apps and digital technologies
- Related institutional excellence models, for example European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM), Total Quality Management, Six-Sigma Methodology for Services and Products, comparative frameworks and practices, perspective from UK NICE, national Centres for Disease Control, FDA, etc.
- Illuminating case studies
- Convening annual AfriWorldhero3e GLIASEM International Schools, Symposia, Conferences and Workshops (ISSCWs) with all these topics as themes
- Publishing related proceedings, journal papers, super-books and research monographs
- Continual improvements and excellence in Research, Integrative knowledge, Applications, and Teaching (RIAT), hence pedagogy of medical sciences, across all these topics and especially online for cost-effective development, collation, and dissemination of emerging best practices, journal articles, super-books, research monographs, and web-based learning resources
- Emerging perspectives.
For more details on the technical research areas, please see the Sigma-Z Consulting website at www.sigma-zconsulting.com.
Research spin-offs
- Creating Global Health Innovations, a digital platform, to drive innovative business models, products and services, vital for improving health outcomes and excellence across academia, industry, business and government settings
- Using received theories and innovative practices in Digital Marketing and our 2019 PhD research on Integrated Business Model Template and complementary Digital Internationalisation Template (IBMT-DIT), which extends current capabilities in the Business Model Canvas of Osterwalder et al., to viral-market the innovations
- Related organisational spotlights, evaluation surveys, contract research, and consulting projects, particularly using the IBMT-DIT protocols, and related Hybrid Strategic and Statistical Problem-Solving Moddel (HSSPSM) explored in Ezepue and Ojo (2012), seehttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patrick_Ezepue2/research, and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344616782.
Current project
The Role of the Private Sector in Resolving Current Challenges in Public Health Supply Chains in Enugu State, Nigeria: Implications for post-Covid-19 Policy and Operational Improvements ($15,000 circa)
Professor Patrick Oseloka Ezepue (Principal Investigator)
Dr Henry Uro-Chukwu (Co-Investigator)
Enquiries
For more details, please contact us at:
Email: info@afrihero.org.uk; or through Tel. no: +447772632150 to speak to the Director of Research and Enterprise Development, Professor Patrick Oseloka EZEPUE, PhD