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. She is the founder of the Maternal & Child Health Innovation Lab, a translational research lab focused on advancing maternal and child health through innovation-driven, systems-oriented, and community-informed research.
Her program of research focuses on maternal health systems, healthcare navigation, maternal health literacy, and healthcare utilization across the perinatal continuum. Her work employs technology-enabled and systems-focused approaches, including mHealth, to improve maternal health engagement, navigation, and access to care. She also develops scalable workforce-supported and community-informed interventions that strengthen interactions between individuals and healthcare systems, with particular attention to culturally and linguistically diverse and underserved populations.
Dr. Azugbene contributes to broader maternal and child health translational research collaborations 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 scalable, real-world solutions that improve population-level outcomes.