Chikwe Ihekweazu

Writer

Chikwe Ihekweazu is an infectious disease epidemiologist and public health leader with over twenty-five years of experience in senior leadership roles at the World Health Organisation, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases, the UK’s Health Protection Agency (HPA), and Germany’s Robert Koch Institute. He is the recipient of the Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) awarded by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, for his service.