Hippolite’s medical career has lasted three decades, since 1987, cutting across engineering-in-healthcare, orthopedics, and neonatology research. His current global prowess in neonatal innovations for LMICs has been greatly influenced by his academic exploits, both as a student and later Professor at Imperial College London, UK. His current practice and research-Lab of nurses, doctors, and technicians span the entire regions of Nigeria, covering & gt;30 tertiary hospitals over the last two decades, enabling him unprecedented access to evidence-based data on a national representative scale. He has since been a regular in the WHO and World Bank list of global thinkers on the African perspective of climate change's impact on neonatal health.