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Alex Chika Ezeh

Dr. Alex C. Ezeh, MSc, MA, PhD, is the Executive Director of the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and honorary Professor of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He joined APHRC in 1998 (then a program of the Population Council in Nairobi) as a Senior Research Fellow. In 2000, he was appointed APHRC’s Interim Director and charged with leading its transition into an autonomous institution. He was appointed APHRC’s Executive Director in 2001 and has steered the young institution to phenomenal growth to date. Prior to joining APHRC, Dr. Ezeh worked at ORC/Macro International, where he provided technical assistance to governmental and non-governmental institutions in several African countries in the design and conduct of Demographic and Health Surveys.

Dr. Ezeh has more than 20 years of experience working in the population and public health fields and has authored numerous scientific publications covering a broad range of fields, including population and reproductive health, urban health, health metrics, and education. Dr. Ezeh is the Director of the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA), a multicountry initiative to rebuild the capacity of African universities to produce and retain well-trained and highly skilled academics in the fields of population and public health. He has served and continues to serve on the boards and scientific committees of several international public health organizations, including the World Health Organization, PATH, the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population,  the Health Metrics Network, the Wellcome Trust, and The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

Dr. Ezeh received his PhD in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania  in 1993. He also has an MA in Demography from the same university (1991) and an MSc in Sociology from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (1988).