IKE IYIOKE, PhD.

Dr. Ike Valentine Iyioke is the Research Administrator for the Alliance for African Partnerships (AAP) at Michigan State University. He has responsibilities that contribute to the team effort for capacity building, program implementation, faculty proposal development, and coordination of international scholar visits of AAP partners.

Dr. Iyioke has led and participated in international capacity development teams with collaborators in Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Vietnam, etc., and applied for external funding with US government agencies (e.g., NIH). In addition, Dr. Iyioke brings to this position his extensive teaching, research, and administrative experience both in the U.S. and externally in Nigeria and South Africa, that span almost two decades. This includes teaching stints at Alma College, MI; Department of Public Health, University of Michigan, Flint; and the Division of Public Health, Michigan State University, Flint. His multidisciplinary backgrounds include a B.Phil. in philosophy from Pontifical University, Rome; a teaching certificate from University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN); an MSc. in international relations from UNN; an MA in environmental science writing from MSU; and a PhD in bioethics (with a focus on research ethics) from MSU. His research interests include issues about research subject/participant selection; biomedical research partnerships between the South & the North; and environmental science and public policy. 

Dr. Iyioke has published widely in his field. His publications include the following books:

• An African Research Ethics Reader: From the Ground Up, Brill Publishers (2024);
• Rethinking Clinical trials: Redefining Responsibility for Research Participants, Ethics International Press (2023); and, 
• Clinical trials and the African Person: A Quest to Re-conceptualize Responsibility, Brill Publishers (2018).

Since 2021, Dr. Iyioke has served the Africa Centers for Disease Control, ACDC, (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), as a member of the Ethics Consultative Working Group to formulate an “Ethics Framework for Health Research During Epidemics and Public Health Emergencies,” and “A Framework for Considering Health Research Ethics in Africa.” Also, Dr. Iyioke was a two-time Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow (Visiting scholar) to the University of South Africa (2023), and to the University of Cape Town (2022).