Ogochukwu Chukwujekwu

Datos Biográficos

ID9022508
NOMBREOgochukwu Chukwujekwu
NOMBRESOgochukwu
APELLIDOChukwujekwu
FIRMACHUKWUJEKWU O
AFILIACIONESWorld Health Organization Regional Office for Africa
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS4
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR4
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2020
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Measuring health financing vulnerability due to reductions in official development assistance

    Open AccessJames Avoka Asamani, Sophie Faye et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Despite a 33% increase in Official Development Assistance (ODA) from 2019 to 2023, aid declined by 7% in 2024 and projected to further decline in 2025–2027. Health systems in Africa are being impacted by the sudden aid freezes and cuts. There are no multicriteria metrics to estimate the vulnerability of countries to facilitate dialogue and decisions. This paper proposes an approach to assess country’s vulnerability to external aid cuts, consideri…

  • Countdown to 2030

    Open AccessDoris Osei Afriyie, Diane Karenzi Muhongerwa et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2025

    Background: Countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) African region are lagging behind in the global push toward universal health coverage (UHC), a core component of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. As the target year steadily approaches, it is crucial to assess countries' current and planned health financing reforms to understand their path towards UHC. We examine both current and planned health financing reforms in the WHO A…

  • Projected health workforce requirements and shortage for addressing the disease burden in the WHO Africa Region, 2022–2030

    Open AccessJames Avoka Asamani, Kouadjo San Boris Bediakon et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    INTRODUCTION: An adequate health workforce (HWF) is essential to achieving the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), including universal health coverage. However, weak HWF planning and constrained fiscal space for health, among other factors in the WHO Africa Region, has consistently resulted in underinvestment in HWF development, shortages of the HWF at the frontlines of service delivery and unemployment of qualified and trained he…

  • Embedded research to advance primary health care

    Open AccessSoumya Swaminathan, Kay Sheikh et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Realising renewed efforts to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage, manage health emergencies and create healthier populations requires integrated action on system-wide challenges. One of the best ways to do this is to focus on primary health care (PHC). Advancing PHC needs the support of a robust learning agenda—encompassing questions on how to improve both essential and emergency services, engage and empower communities and addr…