Ifeanyi is the Health Technical Expert and Strategy Consultant to Upswell, providing daily strategic project guidance, leading the firm’s Nigerian public relations, and facilitating weekly coalition meetings. During the pandemic, he supported the use of Facebook and Instagram to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake among health care providers in Nigeria.
Since 2017, Ifeanyi has led the conceptualisation, coalition-building, fundraising and implementation of seven hackathons to develop digital health technologies across 3 countries (Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa).
He has authored and co-authored more than 110 opinion articles published in major media outlets including Al Jazeera, Project Syndicate, NPR, the Conversation, Scientific American and BMJ Global Health Blogs. Ifeanyi has led more than 30 research projects across Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Ghana and Nigeria, and was co-lead of evaluation of the African Union intervention to end the Ebola Outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
In 2020, he was listed by NewAfrican Magazine as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Africans of te year and by Onalytica in the Coronavirus Top 100 Healthcare Professionals Globally. Ifeanyi is a two-times TEDx Speaker and a MOTH storyteller. He has been interviewed by major news outlets including The New York Times, Al Jazeera, BBC, Channel News Asia, CCTV, Forbes and The Lancet.