Patrick is a researcher and the team lead at eBASE Africa based in Cameroon. 

He is active across the evidence ecosystem with a focus on evidence implementation in health and education. Patrick is active within global evidence communities including Africa Evidence Network, Cochrane, Campbell, JBI, GIN, and COVID-19 Recmaps.

At eBASE his team seeks to improve livelihoods through innovations and best practice and especially for underserved populations. The team is innovating African storytelling approach for mobilizing research evidence uptake for households, practitioners, and policymakers through pilot projects funded by CEDIL Programme, Education Endowment Foundation, Ambassade de France au Cameroun and Grand Challenges Canada. His team is using this approach to increase uptake of research evidence for policymakers, practitioners, and public across Middle Africa.

Patrick and his team have successfully used meta-analysis to transfer mid-level theories to Middle Africa within the eBASE Teaching and Learning Toolkit. The toolkit contains 30 strands that broker research evidence to stakeholders with contextualized cost, evidence security, and impact. This toolkit has been informed by stakeholder sessions and over 30 rapid reviews and 3 systematic reviews.

Patrick is a winner of several awards including The Campbell Robert Boruch Award and The Cochrane Aubrey Sheiham Award. He was also an opening keynote speaker at the first Global Evidence Synthesis award in 2017.