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The Public Healthcare Division (PHD) of the Centre for Educational Planning, Economics & Research Development (CEPERD) is a unique and important development for all health service stakeholders and the wider community. The Division research encapsulates continuous improvement of quality, safety, and care outcomes through enabling leadership, research, innovation, audit and quality improvement. The Division becomes a national leader in healthcare excellence, enables by the integration of research, innovation, practice and education. PHD works with partners to spread innovations build capability and catalyze policy changes so that everyone in Nigeria has safe and high-quality healthcare. PHD is the primary voice for public health advocacy. The Division leads the way to protect all Nigerians and their communities from preventable, serious health threats. The Public Healthcare Division (PHD) strives to assure community-based health promotion and disease prevention activities and preventive health services are accessible to everyone. PHD represents a broad array of health providers, educators, environmentalists, policymakers and health officials. PHD is also working on other critical public health issues including public health and emergency preparedness, food safety, hunger and nutrition, climate change and other environmental health issues, public health infrastructure, disease control, international health and tobacco control. The Division combines local capacity with global knowledge to empower public and private health sector workers to improve access to quality health services for the people they serve. The Division brings together the best of a class of health professionals, researchers, policy advisors, and management experts.

PHD Mission

To unite, inspire, and enrich interdisciplinary leadership that progresses healthcare management providing them with the highest quality technical assistance backed by operational research.

PHD Vision

  • To be a homegrown leader in research and programme implementation in the field of health in Nigeria and other developing countries.
  • To provide global solutions locally through reliable research and project implementation while maintaining a partnership with leading global players in the field of public health.

Goals

  • To educate the public health workforce by enhancing their competence and skills in public health practice.
  • To improve public health science, public health practice and public health leadership by establishing and maintaining partnerships and working relationships with other agencies and organizations.
  • To provide managerial, programmatic and technical support to local, state, federal and international organizations involved in the delivery and evaluation of public health services.

OBJECTIVES

  • To provide educational opportunities and continuing education for public health professionals and those interested in public health.
  • To maintain and enhance professional knowledge, increase technical proficiencies and enable members to promote public health.
  • To advance quality improvement in both health care delivery and public health and has been in the forefront of ensuring quality in public health systems through its texts on standards, education programs and policies that promote quality improvement in a range of public health systems.
  • To contribute to the elimination of preventable deaths by deploying proven hospital and community-based interventions in target communities in the developing countries
  • Create advanced research and technology capability in healthcare technologies
  • Carry out research with industrial focus and impact, and develop the next generation of researchers in healthcare innovation
  • Translate technologies to be adopted by industry.
OUR WORK
  • Our work involves multiple projects which reflect the major themes of our approach as being
  • Evidence-based and interdisciplinary
  • Understanding the processes of implementing and spreading innovations
  • Encompassing different types of innovation across multiple levels of healthcare systems
  • Addressing different external and organizational contexts for innovation spread and implementation
  • Assessing patient and public involvement in embedding innovations.
OUR SERVICES
  • Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems
  • Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues
  • Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems
  • Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
  • Provide collaboration for community services.
  • Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems
  • Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable
AREAS OF EXPERTISE The Public Healthcare Division (PHD) specializes in health care analysis, policy research, and monitoring and evaluation of health programmes. PHD has a strong concern for ensuring the voice of the vulnerable and marginal community to be heard by the public health programme planner and policymakers. The Division sets safety standards to protect workers and develops school nutrition programmes to ensure kids have access to healthy food and healthcare; eliminating health inequality, emergency preparedness, food safety, hunger and nutrition, climate change and other environmental health issues, public health infrastructure, disease control, international health and tobacco control. PHD leads the way to educate all Nigerians and their communities on how to prevent serious health threats. The Division strives to assure community-based health promotion and disease prevention activities and preventive health services are accessible to everyone irrespective of social status. RESEARCH FOCUS AREAS The Public Healthcare Division (PHD) produces research which supports practitioners, policy-makers, and other stakeholders facing the complex challenges of embedding healthcare innovations; that is, implementing innovations sustainably and at scale. The Division research aims to develop the evidence base for improving the sustainable implementation and spread of healthcare innovations by identifying generalisable aspects and mechanisms of the way such innovations are adopted, adapted and embedded across different contexts. PHD work connects the introduction of innovations to the shifting work patterns and organizational changes required to scale and sustain them in practice. The Division provides the interdisciplinary approach needed to analyse, evaluate and improve this dynamic process of embedding innovation. PHD is working across a range of academic fields such as health sciences, organisational studies, implementation research and social sciences and deploy of a range of methodological tools, including both the tracking of innovation journeys over time, and cross-sectional comparison of innovations. The Public Healthcare Division (PHD) focus areas include the following: