Emmanuel is a health economist, public health and systems specialist and social behavioural science researcher with over 15 years of professional experience in diagnosing, designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating health services, governance and systems-strengthening projects in Nigeria. He is currently leading the research portfolio of the Policy Innovation Centre’s Social Behavioral Science Research (SBSR), which is a multi-disciplinary unit that focuses on conducting cross cutting research using scientifically proven methodologies to understand human behaviours and drivers of change (individual and societal well-being).

As the Research Lead, Emmanuel supports diagnosis, design, delivery and scale of innovative solutions using multi-pronged, mixed methods research. Some of the research projects he supported include Women’s Health Scoping Review in Lagos, Kano and Kaduna states; Adolescent Girls Initiatives for Learning and Education (AGILE) project process evaluation in Katsina; and the ongoing Nigeria Survey on gender Norms, Attitudes, Health and Wellbeing in 13 states and FCT.

Emmanuel has served as a member of the senior management team in many international organizations including Management Science for Health, Population Council, Research Triangle Institute, Palladium and Health Policy Research Group. His expertise cut across health systems diagnostics, health financing, systems strengthening, governance, health services utilization, total market approach to health programing, health promotion, health workforce management, policy advocacy, domestic resource mobilization, market shaping, health infrastructure preparedness and monitoring and evaluations. He is an Academic Editor in PLOS ONE and a reviewer in many high impact journals and has published widely including issues around women’s health, MNCH, economic evaluations, and SBSR.