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Ikenna Ebiri Okoro

Abia State Commission for the Welfare of Persons Living with Disabilities, Nigeria; Emerging Voices for Global Health TWG; Pan Africanist. He facilitates the programmatic implementation of major government policies to remove barriers for persons with disabilities to fully participate in society.
 

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Gen Z Rage Tests Global Health’s Reform Theatre

The Indian “cockroach movement” led by Cockroach Janta Party is a recent and vivid expression of Gen Z anger and youth mobilization. It emerged after the Chief Justice of India compared some unemployed young people to ‘cockroaches’ during a court hearing; he later clarified that he had not intended to disparage India’s youth as a ...

Disability-Inclusive Universal Health Coverage: The Missing Metric in Africa’s Health Financing Reforms 

No society achieves genuine progress when a significant portion of its people faces systematic exclusion from essential services. As someone previously involved in implementing social health insurance at the state level in Abia, (South-East) Nigeria, I have seen how national UHC frameworks — often shaped by donor priorities — collapse at th...

Building Resilient Community Health Systems: Moving Beyond the Extractive Legacy of Western Engagement in Africa

As the  Lyon “One Health” summit  pledges face their first real test at the upcoming  World Health Summit Regional Meeting  in Nairobi, Africa must finally reject extractive Western engagement and build sovereign, resilient community health systems anchored in professionalised CHWs and genuine local ownership. Western engagement with...

Strengthening community engagement is essential for the success of public health and social measures in Nigeria in times of global health emergencies

Community engagement is key to the sustained success of  public health and social measures (PHSMs) in response to outbreaks. As witnessed during the Covid pandemic (among others), public health and social measures are a key strategy to reduce the transmission of pathogens with epidemic or pandemic potential. The pandemic also reminded us of the...

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Power, Not Physics: Global Health’s Real Three-Body Problem

This short piece began as a spontaneous, from-the-heart intervention in the Emerging Voices for Global Health Google group – the kind of timely, unfiltered discussion that happens there from time to time. It was prompted by the broader ongoing conversations about “reimagining” global health, and specifically by the recent article “Global Heal...