Implementation Science in Africa-Whose Epistemology Counts?

[Ejemai Eboreime]

Our new article just published in The Lancet Global Health!

📄 "Implementation Science in Africa - Whose Epistemology Counts?"

We analyzed how Western implementation frameworks miss the actual mechanisms that make health programs succeed in African contexts - like traditional governance, community legitimacy, and relational authority.

We propose:

✓ Centering African epistemologies as fundamental knowledge, not just "context"

✓ LMIC researcher leadership in LMIC implementation studies

✓ New methodologies that capture relational dynamics & informal systems

✓ Transforming IS education to value multiple epistemological traditions equally

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X25004140?ref=pdf_download&fr=RR-2&rr=99d268d0c8da5383

EJEMAI EBOREIME MD; PhD; MSc; DLSHTM; PMP; FAPH

Assistant Professor

Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University

5909 Veterans' Memorial Lane, 8th Floor

Abbie J. Lane Memorial Building
QEII Health Sciences Centre

Halifax, NS, Canada

Affiliate Scientist
Nova Scotia Health Authority

Halifax, NS, Canada

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[Jean-Paul Dossou]

Dear Prof. Ejemai,

Thank you for sharing this excellent work.

The insights are highly relevant and I can start using them from today in my scientific and advocacy related work. 

Thanks for this scientific gift to the global health community. 

Bravo. Sincèrement Bravo. 

Jean-Paul Dossou

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