Category: Research is People
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Keep the experience we create together with implementation science!
We met one sunny afternoon, to speak of dreaming and reimagining, ways to implement under 3 minutes, with words that first come to mind, in any format, with any tools. Some wrote odes, others wrote haikus, all of us delighted in the process, with words that showed us how to connect, whether feasible or acceptable,…
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Keep Beyoncé’s Renaissance for Dissemination and Implementation Science!
I am a researcher, an implementation scientist and Ms Carter is my teacher. Name anyone whose career for over 25 years has closed a know do gap with implementing and disseminating anything they created within a year without waiting for 15 years. Chances are Beyoncé would not come to mind. Ignore her though at your…
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Keep REST with your community!
They say a community that meets and let’s love be at the end, will live and live. I am in a space where finding, nurturing and keeping my community is all that matters. All last week they taught me something I simply forgot existed, the power of REST. We spend so much time working that…
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Keep Belle’s depths with ease!
Only our memories will linger on, against the cobbled streets in the city of lights. And who can choose between there and here, between the depths of the past and the ease of now. Darkness every time will lose and who can choose between the joys of a future where Nkiruka or the hurdles of…
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Keep Korede House with eliminating loneliness!
What enriches you? Empowers you too? What questions are you also asking yourself, for yourself first and no one else? Some issues are etched in my mind as priorities these days. The numbness with senseless murders for one, from people who resort to guns rather than love or even words. Even the thought of Enough…
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Keep the public in public health!
What public health does not need, is people unwilling to exact the truth. Those unable to look beyond the mirror, to illuminate life for those we serve. So these words are not written to impress. Not even written to note all the ways we let the public down. Rather we will put people back into…
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Keep being STARS!
Ben Okri has a poem, “I sing a new freedom” that ended with these worlds: “children of the stars…ought to amaze.” I agree and as part of our recently concluded STAR designathon which ended this weekend, I reminded students of STARS about why all of them are quite simply Amazing Brilliant Celebrated Dominant Elevated Famous…
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Keep dreaming about sustainability!
I have been speaking about sustainability for a long time. I woke up to to a phone call this morning that asked if I could speak on it to a group in less than 30 minutes. I said yes ( because I have been thinking about this topic for a long time) and proceeded to…
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Keep radical wellness for public health!
Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well? This question has always haunted my spirit. It’s from Toni Cade Bambara’s novel, The Salteaters. It is also apt for today. That and what does being well mean for the public’s health, from a social justice lens, radical wellness too and not from experts alone,…
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Keep 4 girls and women with ending cervical cancer!
Each day, nearly 28 women die from cervical cancer in Nigeria. Angela Akumuo, my sister-in law, was one of them in the summer of 2021. She was 53 years old. Her death, like those of many women who continue to die from cervical cancer in Nigeria and globally, could have been prevented. It was also…
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Keep lions telling their own story!
What makes for knowledge? How is it acquired? And how should it be used? I have been grappling with this notion ever since I arrived at the place called home. I came to teach, but I found myself being the student more than the teacher. I found myself asking questions internally and also doing so…
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Keep formalized curiosity!
Zora Neale Hurston described research as a ‘formalized curiosity.’ One that involves poking and prying with a purpose. I have been blessed to call research my job. To engage in this formalized curiosity full time is the best gift I have ever given to myself. Many take it for granted, but I know what I…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 