NGF, GCNg to Host Health Innovation Exchange in Abuja.
The meeting, scheduled to hold at Lake Greenfield Hotel, will bring together state governments, research teams, government institutions, development partners and financing stakeholders to examine how evidence-based health innovations can be adopted, funded and scaled across the country.
With the theme, ‘Innovation to Impact: Evidence, Adoption, Uptake and Scale for Better Health in Nigeria,’ the exchange may focus on the institutional capacity, policy decisions and sustainable financing required to assess how promising innovations can progress from research towards practical use.
Eight projects supported by Grand Challenges Nigeria, focusing on maternal, newborn and child health, will feature prominently at the meeting.
The projects address critical healthcare challenges, including newborn sepsis diagnosis, umbilical cord care, community-supported digital healthcare, emergency maternal referrals, birth-defect identification, perinatal asphyxia research, digital risk support and the prediction of severe pre-eclampsia. According to the organisers, the programme will combine research evidence and practical implementation experiences with policy discussions on adoption, replication across states, financing and the evidence and conditions required for adoption and scale. The NGF’s involvement may bring state-level implementation priorities and opportunities for peer learning into the discussions, particularly as state governments remain critical to the delivery of healthcare services. The African University of Science and Technology will also contribute a Policy Lab focusing on the institutional decisions required to translate research into practice.
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