Hosted by the GPH Department of Global & Environmental Health
There is an increasing burden of hypertension in Africa which is largely driven by gaps in care. Join Dr. Dike Ojji for a presentation about how multicomponent and multilevel interventions at patient, provider, and system levels are necessary for bridging these gaps in care. The Hypertension Treatment in Nigeria Programme and the Managing Hypertension in Persons Living with HIV: an Integrated Model (MAP-IT) study, present some of the best examples of how these gaps can be bridged by leveraging already established systems at the primary care level to implement evidence-based interventions in the continent of Africa.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Dike Ojji had his basic medical education at Nigeria’s premier university, University of Ibadan, and subsequently had his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University College Hospital, Ibadan and the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia. He is a fellow of the West African College of Physicians, American College of Physicians, European Society of Cardiology and Nigerian Cardiac Society. He also holds a PhD in Cardiovascular Medicine from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is a faculty at College of Health Sciences of University of Abuja and an Honorary Consultant Physician/Cardiologist, at University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, Abuja, Nigeria. His areas of interest include pharmacotherapy of hypertension, spectrum of hypertensive heart disease, hypertensive heart failure in native Africans. He has over 66 manuscripts in peer reviewed journals including NEJM, JAMA, Lancet, Eur Heart J and Eur J Heart Fail.