Professor Alex Ezeh

Alex Ezeh is Dornsife Professor of Global Health at Drexel University. Professor Ezeh was the founding executive director of the African Population and Health Research Centre and he initiated and directed the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa, a program that seeks to strengthen doctoral training, research, and faculty retention at African universities. Prof. Ezeh’s work focuses on slum health, population dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa, and models to strengthen knowledge-based institutions in Africa. He Co-Chaired the Guttmacher-Lancet Commission on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. Prof. Ezeh has a PhD in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania and is the recipient of the 2018 TWAS Prize for the Social Sciences.