Overview

Health practitioners have successfully developed evidence-based health innovations to solve public health problems. However, challenges remain in translating and scaling up these innovations to save and improve lives in Africa. Scaling Up Health Innovations in Africa focuses on the lessons learned from scaling up health innovations across the continent. Obidimma Ezezika provides engaging and insightful evidence on the challenges and triumphs of taking health innovations to scale, drawing from hundreds of interviews with practitioners on the ground. The book includes stories, anecdotes, and lessons from experiences in eleven African countries, including Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Uganda, and Mozambique. It addresses the unique socio-cultural, financial, and logistical constraints faced in these regions, alongside insights, successes, and next steps for scaling innovations within the African context. The book critically emphasizes the importance of understanding how implementation science can aid in scaling up innovations in Africa. While there have been disparate works on scaling specific health innovations in Africa, a unified series of cases is needed from an implementation science perspective to create generalizable lessons and principles. Ultimately, Scaling Up Health Innovations in Africa offers valuable insights around implementation strategies that translate health innovations to achieve broad impact.

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""This textbook is a practical case-based discussion of real-world problems of implementation in health systems across the African continent. Global implementation science is gaining traction, and this is a timely resource for professionals across Africa who need a reference to guide local implementation and capacity-building efforts. Now, more than ever, African countries need to address their own implementation problems in context, and Scaling Up Health Innovations in Africa will serve as an excellent guidebook towards self-efficacy."" -- Nadia A. Sam-Agudu, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School; Institute of Human Virology Nigeria; and University of Cape Coast School of Medical Sciences, Ghana ""It has been an enlightening and enriching experience to delve into the contents of this work. Through this book, I have encountered a wealth of valuable insights, rigorous research, and thought-provoking ideas that have expanded my understanding in the field. The depth and breadth of knowledge presented within the chapters is a testament to the expertise and dedication of the author."" -- Olabanji Surakat, Senior Lecturer, Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria ""Scaling Up Health Innovations in Africa will be relevant to various key actors in the health profession, and the book will be particularly useful in the capacity building of medical and allied-health students across universities, professionals working with development partners, and international and local non-government organizations. The context-specific and easy easy-to-follow approach make the book suitable for students. The various issues articulated in the work are cross-cutting and would readily fit into both medical and allied health curriculum in Nigeria and beyond."" -- Oluwaseun Ariyo , Associate Professor, Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Author Information

Obidimma Ezezika is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences and the director of the Global Health and Innovation Lab at Western University.

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