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Benjamin S. Chudi Uzochukwu is a Public Health and Community Medicine Physician at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu and a Professor of Public Health, Health Policy and Systems at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where he was the founding director of the Institute of Public Health. He is also the Deputy Director, Health Policy Research Group at the Enugu campus of the University of Nigeria. His expertise spans multiple fields including implementation research, healthcare financing, realistic evaluation of health programmes, leadership & management and health technology assessment. He is passionate about the use of research evidence in the formulation policy and guidelines for practice. With over 25 years’ experience in Public Health and over 200 publications in peer reviewed journals, including the Lancet, Google Citation of 13392 and H-index of 40, he has been involved in the Global Burden of Disease studies and has contributed to significant changes in government health policies. Some of his research outputs and publications have been instrumental in health systems strengthening and health sector reforms in Nigeria, impacting on Malaria & HIV control, immunization, community participation and key interventions which preferentially benefit the poorest. He has also been involved in the development of several state and national strategic health development plans and national policy documents. Prof. Uzochukwu is a leading member in Health Policy and Systems Research in Nigeria, Africa and global level and was a board member of the largest global body of Health Systems and Policy experts and practitioners – Health System Global. He has acted in several advisory capacities including as a policy adviser and consultant to Nigeria’s state and Federal Ministry of Health, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the West Africa Health Organization (WAHO), and African Center for Disease Control (CDC) in various areas of health systems. Presently, he serves as the Chairman, Faculty of Community Health of the West African College of Physicians and Director, Grants and Research of the West African College of Physicians. He is also an executive member of the Association of Schools of Public Health in Africa, the Ministerial Expert Advisory Committee on COVID-19 Health Sector Response in Nigeria and the Expert Review Committee on Polio eradication and immunization. He is a Fellow of National Academy of Science (FAS) and the Academy of Medicine Specialists of Nigeria (FAMedS)