Profile: Alex Ezeh: bringing world-class research home

Abstract

Before then he had studied for his PhD in demography at the University of Pennsylvania and later worked for Macro International in Maryland, providing technical expertise to African institutions on how to get national demographic and health surveys offthe ground. "The APHRC model says something important about how research is done-it combines academic high quality research with activism and community participation and development", explains Sharon Fonn, of the School of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.