Echezona Ezeanolue, M.D., M.P.H., is a physician-scientist whose research focuses on implementation science and practice to enhance the effectiveness and quality of health services. Dr. Ezeanolue served as the Director of the HRSA-funded Nevada Comprehensive Maternal-Child HIV program in Las Vegas (H12HA24832) for over a decade before moving back to Nigeria, where he is Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and leads the IVAN Research Institute, the Nigeria Implementation Science Alliance (NISA), and the ICON-3 Practice Based Research Network.
He is currently MPI for Accelerating Cervical Cancer Elimination through the integration of Screen-and-treat Services in Nigeria (U01CA275118); Community Vital Signs, an integrated community-based approach to identify strategies for increasing equitable access to BP screening and successful connections to primary care for HTN management (R61HL172240); and a program to train and strengthen the ability of university research administrators and HIV implementation practitioners to submit and manage successful HIV grants (G11TW011841). He has served as PI or Co-Investigator on >25 funded projects in the United States and Nigeria, including the Baby Shower Trial (R01HD075050; recruited 6,000 women across 40 sites) and the iSTAR Trial (R01HD089871; recruited 10,000 women across 80 sites).