Ehiremen (Ehi) Adesua Azugbene, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Population Health, affiliated with the School of Health Systems Transformation in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University. Her program of research focuses on advancing maternal and child health by strengthening health system navigation, maternal health literacy, and care utilization across the perinatal continuum.
Her work draws on public health theories and models to address healthcare access and utilization and employs technology-enabled and system-integrated approaches, including digital health platforms such as mHealth, to improve care coordination and engagement. She also develops workforce-supported models and scalable interventions that enhance how individuals interact with complex healthcare systems. Her scholarship also examines how health system design, communication structures, and care delivery practices influence maternal healthcare, with a particular emphasis on culturally and linguistically diverse and underserved communities.
Dr. Azugbene contributes to the leadership of the Maternal and Child Health Translational Research Team (MCHTRT) at ASU and is a research affiliate with the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center’s Office of Refugee Health. Her work aims to translate research into practical, scalable solutions that improve maternal health and population-level outcomes.