A Presentation By Ebele Mogo, DrPH, Rotary Scholar, Denver on Research on Urban Health in Lagos, Nigeria

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Assessing the alignment between community perceptions
of urban health and resilience needs in the Lagos
metropolis and state, federal and global priorities
Ebele Mogo
Twitter - @ebyral

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Thank You
 Rotary Club : Robert West and team
 Center for Global Health
 Professor Robinson and Mr Durst
 Committee members: Dr Leiferman, Dr Litt, Dr McManus, Dr
Risendal
 Colleagues and professors in the doctoral program
 Parents

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Background/Why Lagos Metropolis
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 Lagos metropolis is the metropolitan area of Lagos
 Population growth rate – 6-8%, national growth rate is 2.7
 City positively impacts health and wellbeing through: opportunities for
economic advancement, information, technology, culture, and
knowledge (World Health Organization et al, 2010)
 City negatively impacts health and wellbeing through: intra-urban
poverty, crime, slum proliferation, noise, pollution, transportation, air
quality, traffic congestion, safety, noise, power supply, flooding, poor,
overcrowded and unsafe housing (Ajayi et al, 2014)

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Background
 My goal:
 To collect quantitative data through an audit of the built environment to capture
built environment features and areas for improvement
 Qualitative data through analyzing government archives and interviewing
government staff
 Identify whether health is integrated into government’s planning processes and
how to better integrate it into it
 Make recommendations to the government and related stakeholders to ensure
that the health and wellbeing of people is central to the development of Lagos

5. +Findings
 Need for attitude change that makes health issues central to development
 Government’s plans are very robust yet challenged by high rate of
migration as well as economic recession and as such waste management,
built environment features still insufficient
 Need to deal with financial challenges with new models e.g. private sector,
local and international partnerships
 Need for more engaged community partnerships and transition from top-
down governance
 Need for closer monitoring and evaluation to allow for targeted strategies

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Next steps
 Conclude analysis: analysis of interviews and data collected on the
ground
 Conclude write-up
 Build on partnerships created during data collection as vehicles for
dissemination and making recommendations to the government, media,
academia, civil society and international organizations

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Thank you very much
 Questions?