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ITM Colloquium8-10 November 2010

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Seye Abimbola, physician and epidemiologist, is interested in global health policy, primary care and non-communicable disease. He studied at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, where he was also editor of the medical school journal, IFEMED. He was awarded the BMJ Clegg Scholarship in 2007. He also won the 2007 Global Forum for Health Research/The Lancet Essay Prize for “Young Voices in Research for Health.” Seye worked as pre-registration house officer at Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesha, Nigeria and subsequently as tutor and research assistant at Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria. He was a 2009-10 Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar at The George Institute for Global Health during which he completed his research thesis in epidemiology at the University of Sydney, Australia. Seye is keen about increasing research capacity in developing countries. He is one of the leaders of Build AfReCa! (Build African Research Capacity!) a group of young scientists seek-ing to boost the capacity for health and biomedical research in Africa. His next role will be as a research fellow at the National Primary Health Care Develop-ment Agency, Abuja, Nigeria where he will work on chronic disease epidemiology and management within primary care.

Seye Abimbola

Email: [email protected]

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Population and health by training, Agaba Edgar is currently Lecturer and Technical Assistant for Com-munity health financing at Uganda Martyrs University (UMU). Before joining UMU this year, worked as Moni-toring and evaluation specialist for USAID programs on child survival, health & nutrition and HIV/AIDS in Uganda for over 7 years. As a member of the teach-ing staff of the Faculty of Health Sciences, my main duty is to work within a framework of improving health services management in Uganda; Train health Manag-ers; and support in strengthening the teaching and research capacities with focus on community health financing. As part of the community service, provide technical backstopping to Community Health Insur-ance (CHI) schemes by assisting scheme managers in designing action-oriented research that can easy improve practice. Am interested in developing and promoting decentralized approaches to health where the beneficiaries participate and determine how their health should be governed and arranged for better access and utilization.”

Edgar Agaba


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Médecin généraliste de formation terminant un Diplôme d’Études Supérieures Spécialisées en Gestion et Management des Services de Santé dans le cadre du projet PARC de l’Université de Montréal. J’ai été le Directeur Médical du premier Centre de Diagnostic Intégral aux Gonaïves (Haïti).J’ai appuyé en septembre 2008 la Direction Départementale de l’Artibonite (Haïti) lors des cyclones. Suite au séisme du 12 janvier 2010 j’ai aidé Caritas/CRS et la Direction d’Epidémiologie de Laboratoire et de Recherche du Ministère de la santé pour la riposte aux urgences. Je travaille comme Assistant à la Coordination Médicale de la mission Haïti de MSF-Espagne. Je souhaite contribuer à l’amélioration de la performance des systèmes de santé et à la couverture universelle en santé.

Jean Patrick Alfred


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Bouchra Assarag is a medical doctor with a certifi-cate in STI/HIV (University of Rabat), and a MPH of National institute of Health Administration (INAS). She worked as medical officer in a rural district 6 years before joining INAS in 2008 to start a PhD on maternal morbidity. She is an active member of civil associations in the domain of adolescent health, HIV, and family planning. She participated to several studies (national study on burden of diseases, manda-tory declaration of diseases in the private sector, the quality of management of STI in the public sector, children infected and affected by HIV). As a member of the teaching staff in the INAS she coordinates a short course on project management in the domain of HIV, and courses in management Services Reproductive Health. Am interested in developing and promoting services Reproductive Health and access to quality obstetric care.”

Bouchra Assarag


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Sociologue de formation, je mène depuis 2004 des recherches en socio-anthropologie de la santé au Sénégal. L’accès aux soins des pauvres constitue mon centre d’intérêt et les travaux que j’ai effectués dans ce sens ont porté sur les mutuelles de santé commu-nautaires comme stratégie d’autoprotection sociale ; les questions anthropologiques posées par la mise en place d’un forfait accouchement à Pikine ; l’assistance aux démunis dans les formations sanitaires pub-liques… J’ai également travaillé sur les politiques et pratiques en matière de lutte contre la co-infection TB/VIH au Sénégal. Recherches intervenant dans le cadre d’un projet de l’Agence nationale de recherches sur le sida en France (ANRS). Je suis par ailleurs très active sur des études et évaluations des interven-tions en santé. Je fais actuellement un Master en Développement (Spécialité « Santé internationale ») à l’Université Senghor d’Alexandrie”

Maymouna Ba


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Après l’obtention de mon doctorat d’état en médecine en juillet 1997, j’ai d’abord exercé dans le secteur privé de mon pays le Burkina Faso en tant que médecin pratiquant. De 1998 à 2002 j’ai occupé les fonctions de médecin chef de district. De 2002 à 2003, j’ai fait mon Master en Santé Publique (MPH) à l’Institut de Médecine Tropical d’Anvers (IMT). De retour au pays, j’ai travaillé pendant 2 ans à la Direction des Etudes et de la Planification (DEP) du Ministère de la santé. De 2004 à 2006 j’ai obtenu un poste de médecin chercheur au sein du projet de recherche internationale IMMPACT (Initiative for maternal mortality pogramme assess-ment) basé au Centre MURAZ de Bobo Dioulasso au Burkina Faso. Depuis février 2007, je fais partie du staff international de l’ONG humanitaire Médecins du Monde France. De 2007 à 2009, j’ai travaillé en RD Congo comme coordinateur médical dans le district du Tanganyika, province du Katanga Depuis Avril 09 à nos jours, je suis coordinateur général mission Niger Médecins du Monde France. La combinaison des approches organisation des services de santé, planifica-tion, évaluation des programmes de santé, appui technique, coordination de programme de santé et recherche ne peut être qu’enrichissante. La problématique de l’accès universel aux soins dans la région sahélienne de l’Afrique en particulier, en Afrique en général demeure une thématique centrale de mon parcours.”

Mamoudou Barro


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I originally trained as a Health Educator (HE); before I went on to do a Master of Science degree in Public Health –Health Promotion at Leeds Metropolitan University. I worked as a HE with Masindi District Local Government for five years; during this period I partici-pated in a number of Public Health (PH) interventions and research projects dealing with HIV/AIDS being conducted by Ministry of Health Uganda. Among the famous PH interventions and HIV/AIDS research I participated on was the Uganda National HIV/AIDS Sero-Behavioural Survey of 2004, and the training of Village Health Team (VHT) members and rolling out of the VHT concept in Uganda. I joined Uganda Martyrs University (UMU) as a Teaching Assistant in the Fac-ulty of Health Sciences in 2008, an organisation I am still working with in the position of Lecturer. At UMU, I teach on a number of modules on Health Promotion and Health Service Management courses. One of the interesting modules I teach is Health System Re-search (HSR), were we involve the local communities in identifying their own health problems and generate solutions for them by using HSR as a tool. My current curiosity is in PH Training in Uganda, I am interested in ensuring that HSR helps us to answer the varied research questions inherent in PH Training.”

Patrick Bigirwa


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Economist by training, I have been working since 2001 in the area of health financing, particularly as an expert of health insurance in my country. From 2002 to 2004, I was Deputy Director of the National Program of Promoting Health Mutuals in the Ministry of Health. In 2004 I worked as a consultant for IMT / Antwerp in a feasibility study of implementation of health insurance in Congo. Since I work in the field of strategies and policies for health and performance of health systems using the approach Managing for re-sults and that based on Human Rights. As such, I have contributed to the development of several policy and strategy documents in my country, especially in the ar-eas of the fight against HIV / AIDS funding for health, reproductive health, the fight against sexual violence, adolescent health, decentralization in health sector, etc.. I have worked for the German Technical Coopera-tion (GTZ) in the fields of monitoring and evaluation of health mutual in 2004 and of HIV projects in 2009. In 2008, I worked with the School of Public Health in the assessment mission’s five-year Global Fund. From 2007 to 2009 and since last February, I have been working as Senior of Technical Mission at the Office of Minister of Public Health. My research covers the financing and performance of health systems.”

Théophane Bukele Kekemb

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I am a Colombian physician currently enrolled in the Masters in Epidemiology program at Tropical Medi-cine Institute “Pedro Kouri” in Cuba. I am conducting the field work for my Master’s degree program with the International Center for Medical Research and Training (CIDEIM www.cideim.org.co) in Cali, Colombia through the Young Researcher Program of COLCIEN-CIAS, the national administrative department of sci-ence, technology and innovation. My thesis is focused on the development of the epidemiological component of the project: “”Evaluation of a mass dissemination program to promote community participation in the control of dengue transmission in the municipality of Buga, Valle del Cauca””. I believe that health is a right which is composed of different aspects that must converge for the same purpose. From my job in tropical medicine and its close relationship with public health, I want to work in improving the integration of alternative views related to infectious disease control; this includes considering social determinants of health in medical research to increase understanding and efficient decision-making. These efforts, in specific contexts, can ensure universal health coverage in our low and middle income countries.”

Jenny Mabel Carabali


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I am a Medical Graduate from Christian Medical College, Vellore, India with a Masters in Public Health (MPH) from Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum, India. My MPH thesis which explored the patterns and correlates of household health spending and catastrophic health expenditure related to Acute Coronary Syndrome was selected for the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium of Public Health (APACPH) Mini Grants 2008. I am currently a PhD Student, (Sandwich model) under Erasmus Mundus Scholar-ship (for doctoral program: 2010-12) with Division of Global Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden and SCTIMST, India. My PhD research focuses on the development of an effective knowledge translation model for a community-based household-level dietary intervention using community workers. I am particularly interested in expanding this area of work in future to include other major NCD risk factors in the interpretation of currently available scientific knowledge to develop sustainable models within the local cultural context using primary health care set-up or community mobilization. I am also interested in capturing the various costs related to NCDs at the individual / household level and the gender dynamics of the same. “

Meena Daivadanam


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A social worker by profession with educational back-ground with BA degree in sociology and social admin-istration, diploma in Ethiopian language and literature and trained on different health related short courses including the fifth international training course “ Promoting Rational medicines use in the community” given by university of the Western cape ,School of Public health and WHO. I worked as HIV/AIDS project officer for 6 years starting from 2005. I worked for the Ethiopian Volunteer Media Professional against AIDS (EVMPA), where I was able manage different HIV/AIDS related projects targeted media profession-al working in health related programs. Currently I am working as project officer for the National Network of positive women Ethiopia which is un umbrella organiza-tion of 22 positive women associations found all over the country. I have coordinated and conducted differ-ent national level researches related to HIV/AIDS. The Afar stigma research which I have conducted among rural pastoralist community was one of the best exam-ples that promoted me to learn that health related researches can contribute to strengthen health services being delivered in every corner of the world. I am highly interested and committed to contribute my professional expertise to the global efforts being exerted to realize one of the millennium development goals of combating HIV/AIDS.”

Eyelachew Etsub Desta


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Dr Walter Flores is a social scientist from Guatemala. He is the director of the Centro de Estudios para la Equidad y Gobernanza en los Sistemas de Salud (Cent-er for the Study of Equity and Governance in Health Systems), a civil society organization carrying-out inde-pendent research and advocacy work in Guatemala. Dr Flores holds a PhD and a Masters of Community Health from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK. His undergraduate studies in Psychology were carried-out at California State University, Chico and Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala. Dr Flores’ professional work has been carried-out in more than 20 countries from Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. His areas of expertise are health policy analysis, equity of health, right to health, democratic governance of health care policies and community participation in public health policies. He carries-out research in the above subjects and at the same time participates actively in social movements promoting the right to health and equity in Guatemala.

Walter Flores


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I am a Pharmacist by training currently working as a Research Pharmacist within the University of Zim-babwe – University of California, San Francisco (UZ-UCSF) Collaborative Research Programme. Having joined the organization in 2006, I have been involved in therapeutic HIV/AIDS clinical trials for four years. I was previously within a Retail setting having worked for the Medix Group of Pharmacies. The UZ - Parireny-atwa clinical research site where I work is primarily concerned with the conduct of Paediatric and Adult therapeutic clinical trials. I am responsible for the coordination of all research pharmacy activities which include professional and administrative duties as well as oversight of the Pharmacy facilities. I am interested in the translation of knowledge into policy and practice, particularly implementation of research findings in health systems. Proven interventions have not been scaled up or properly implemented to achieve popula-tion level impact. I believe focus on implementation of known and proven interventions through well designed programmes would improve equity of health systems especially in resource-limited settings. “

Wilfred Gurupira


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Kamlesh Jain, I have been trained in medical science and completed my master in Community Medicine (Public Health), from the recognized Medical School of the State of Chhat-tisgarh in India in year 2003. I am working in State Health Resource Center in Health systems development unit in advisory capacity for the development of planning, policy and strategic intervention in the field of public health and through co-ordination activities, accelerating the intervention and op-eration in the field. I am having 7 years of experience in public health and one of the contributor for health sector reforms in the State. I favor the pro poor strategic intervention and support the regulatory mechanisms for the private sector in the health sector. I am more interested to develop the policies for health systems by which poor and vulnerable population can get equitable health services. I believe in community participation by promoting local level planning and empower-ing them through participatory approaches. I am executive and technical member of one of the largest community health volunteer “60,000-Mitanin”programme across state. I also believe that the combination of political willingness and technical views are important for the successful implementa-tion of any programme. Although, I am member of advisory forum but I believe in right implementation of programme in right time and right place, so that I am inclined to involve in operational issues also.

Kamlesh Jain


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Dr. Taufique Joader completed his MBBS in 2007 and his MPH from James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University in 2008 with Highest Distinc-tion and won Allan Rosenfield Award for best overall performance. Recently he completed Diploma in Inter-national Health and Policy Evaluation from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands where he scored the highest among students from different coun-tries. He is also trained in Development Studies from University of Dhaka. He teaches in Introduction to Public Health, Qualitative Research Methods, Health System Management, Ageing and Health, Principles of Health Communication and Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases modules of MPH program at the James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University. He also works as the Member Secretary of the Ethical Review Committee. He is currently coordinating a multi-country research project ‘Revitalizing Health for All: Developing a Comprehensive Primary Health Care Model for Bangladesh’. His areas of interest include Health systems, Infectious disease, Medical Anthropol-ogy and Health Policy. Currently he is also working as a Program Presenter in RTV in a health-related live talk show.”

Taufique Joarder


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Development Worker by training with a bias in Public health. Currently a Fellow with the Makerere University school of Public Health-CDC HIV/AIDS Fellowship Programme. This is a leadership and management capacity building programme whose aim is to enhance program leadership and manage-ment capacity in Uganda through use of hands on training ap-proach. This program works in close collaboration with other organisations (referred to as Host Institutions) to ensure strengthen institutional capacity in ensuring HIV/AIDS inter-ventions are implemented cost effectively and consistently within National and organisational priorities. My current host institution is Straight talk Foundation-a health communication for social change focussed institution working around sexual-ity, adolescence and HIV/AIDS among young people. My tasks include providing technical assistance and oversight to STF’s programs , evaluation of existing programs, development of operational documents (policies, guidelines), and streamlin-ing programs into the Monitoring and evaluation framework, research. I am currently strengthening STF’s responses to HIV/AIDS through exploring new approaches, and prevention strategies that include working with young positives I am particularly interested in promoting health, exploring new ap-proaches that can strengthen health responses and ensure accessibility and utilisation of health services for vulnerable populations-young people, women, children.”

Victoria Kajja


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A medical doctor by training; I graduated from the University of Dar es salaam in 2004. In 2006, I was selected to join other 29 health professionals as a Mkapa Fellow, a program established by the former president of Tanzania, Benjamin Mkapa, to help ad-dress the human resources for health crisis in the country .I was deployed to Newala district Hospital in Mtwara region to work as a HIV/AIDS clinician. In 2008, I was awarded an international fellowship by Ford Foundation International Fellowship program (IFP) to study public health at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, where I obtained a Master of Sciences in public health .I am currently working as a Medical officer in Newala district responsible for su-pervision of the provision of essential health services to the community and strengthening the capacity of the district health care system and its staff. I am inter-ested in public health research mainly on sexual and reproductive health promotion especially on youths and behaviour change. In addition, I have interest on health systems research. “

Albino Kalolo


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Maitrise en sciences sociales, puis DESS en économie de la santé, j’ai travaillé à la société GROUPE ISSA (Innovation et système de santé en Afrique) à Dakar comme chargé d’études de 2005 à 2008. Ensuite de 2008 à 2009, je fus responsable des études, de la prospection et la formation au cabinet IRSS (Initiative pour le renforcement des systèmes de santé). Depuis 2006, j’interviens en qualité de formateur et consult-ant pédagogique lors des sessions de renforcement des capacités organisées par l’Institut Supérieur de Management de la Santé (ISMS) du Centre Africain d’Etudes Supérieures en Gestion (CESAG) de Dakar. Ces sessions de renforcement de capacités portent sur le suivi et évaluation des programmes VIH/sida, des programmes de santé au niveau du district, sur les comptes nationaux de la santé, sur l’amélioration de la performance du système d’information sanitaire de routine (SISR). Depuis 2009, je suis le Manager de Health Consulting international qui est un bureau d’études privé dont les activités portent essentiel-lement sur l’assistance technique et la formation, notamment dans les domaines suivants : planification, suivi et évaluation, conseil, et recherche.”

Morris Konan Kouamé


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I have done my Masters in Field Epidemiology and Hospital Management course and have served many a remote areas of the state as government doctor before I was selected by WHO to work for its Polio Eradication Initiative in polio endemic state of Uttar Pradesh. After this I worked in the departments of Casualty, Paediatrics, Medicine and Blood Transfusion. I am working as an Officer On Special Duty with the state government of Himachal in India and am looking after provisions to put in place Emergency Ambulance Service, Trauma care Services and emergency medi-cine like Animal/ snakebite management and training apart from looking into various aspects of Legal issues in health care like Drug and Cosmetics Act, Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances prevention Act, Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, Employees State Insurance etc. I am also declared as State Public In-formation Officer under Right to Information Act. My endeavour is to make health affordable and accessible with the active intervention of the state government. I think that, government schemes, if formulated keeping in view of ground reality and flexibility and then imple-mented with a strict monitoring mechanism in place can do wonders for the benefit of the poor.”

Omesh Kumar

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I completed my MBBS degree at Rawalpindi Medical College, Pakistan in 1994. Starting my professional career as a medical officer, I worked as manager for district health systems in various capacities. In 2000, I was selected for the MPH program at the Health services Academy, Islamabad, Pakistan. In the subsequent year, I completed my Membership in the discipline of Community Medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, Karachi. Before leaving for further studies in 2007, I was affiliated with the National Commission for Human Development, Pakistan as the National Program Coordinator for Pri-mary Health Care. My work included testing innovative interventions for strengthening and restructuring PHC system in Pakistan. I am currently pursuing my doc-toral studies at the School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Australia. My studies are supported under the Australian Government’s Devel-opment Scholarship Program. My research is focused at health sector decentralization and implications for the Primary health care system in Pakistan. Besides studying, I am also involved in research projects and tutoring for MIPH courses. I am particularly interested in developing innovative ways to strengthen health systems in the developing countries.

Asmat Ullah Malik


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I’m a Tanzanian female working in health research for the past 8 years. I’m an Epidemiologist (LSHTM, UK) with previous trainings in Planning and Manage-ment of Tropical Diseases Control Programmes (ITM, Belgium) and Dental Surgery degree (MUHAS, Tan-zania). My interest has mainly been in health systems research, particularly delivery of health care services relative to management of infectious and communi-cable diseases. I’ve always been keen to learn and understand the gaps of providing quality health care to population from the health providers’ perspec-tives. With the changes in disease profiles and rise in non-communicable diseases where they were not a major problem, enough emphasis should be placed in suitable implementation of scientific innovations and achievements to people who need them the most. I think, this can largely be achieved through understand-ing of health systems designed to deliver these innova-tions to their populations. With the current state of knowledge, I believe the world would have been a far better place if we play our parts right.”

Irene Misuka Masanja

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Médecin burkinabé en deuxième année de Doctorat en santé publique en Taiwan, j’ai travaillé dans les trois niveaux du système de santé selon l’OMS et sur-tout sept ans au niveau du district sanitaire. Ce fut une grande responsabilité que d’avoir été médecin-chef de district. Je retiens que le district sanitaire reste le so-cle du système de santé national (niveau opérationnel) et forge la personnalité et la carrière professionnelle puisqu’étant le lieu de synthèse de la santé : gestion des services, activités clinques y compris interventions chirurgicales, administration, information sanitaire et surveillance épidémiologique, supervision et forma-tion, contrôle et inspection, recherche, collaboration intersectorielle; en somme la santé publique. Des contacts avec le milieu de la recherche lors de la mise en œuvre des projets de recherche dans les districts sanitaires (lieu de collecte des données par excel-lence), de l’expérience de la gestion des districts et de mes formations continues en management, je me suis rendu compte que je suis orienté pleinement vers le management des services permettant de vivre pleine-ment la santé publique dont un élément incontourn-able reste la recherche. Je souhaite et œuvre pour un système de santé toujours intégré afin de réduire de façon efficiente les morbidités et les mortalités.”

Ziemlé Clément Meda


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General Phyisician and MPH. Graduated at Public Health Institute of Catholic University. Much of my work has developed around TB disease. Work in a non-governmental organization that performs technical advice to the National TB Programme for the expansion of the DOTS strategy in Ecuador support planning, training, monitoring and evaluation. In the same organization I had chance to start the Organization of civil society for the tobacco control, especially developing fields of: advocacy, specifically with the decision-makers for generation of public policies and social mobilization through training and social awareness on the subject. In these fields also I could develop one of my major interests, research. I have been submitted 3 posters for international con-gresses, a free theme for national medical conference and a publication in the IJLD as co-author. My work has allowed me understand the need to build and strengthen health systems that improve the access of the population, especially the most vulnerable, to the health services but not only from a bio - medical perspective, but it also develops a system whereby the State enforcement of the right to health of citizens. I believe in public health systems, primary health care and family medicine.”

Maria Augusta Molina


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I am a Pharmacist by training interested in the impact of traditional medicines on conventional health systems and in HIV prevention. My current research work includes herbal pharmacology, herb-drug interac-tions, peri-natal use of traditional medicines as well as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), male circumcision and microbicide trials. I began my career in 2006 as a Junior Research Specialist at the University of Cali-fornia San Francisco’s Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenetics before moving to the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences in 2007. There I worked as a consultant pharmacist for Community Health Intervention Research Program over the following two years. I was a also a research fellow with the Biomedical Research and Training Institute sponsored by the NIH- International Clinical and Operational Health Research and Training Award over the same period. I am currently a Lecturer at University of Zimbabwe School of Pharmacy and a Consultant for the UZ-UCSF Collaborative Research Program (Microbicide Trials Network). I am also a PhD Candidate with University of Zimbabwe Depart-ment of Pharmacology, and pursuing an MSc Clinical Trials with the University of London International Programs.”

Tsitsi Grace Monera


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BSc. (Nursing) by training, I am a young man interested in a career in public health research. I am currently working as a clinical instructor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Great Lakes University of Kisumu. Specifically, I am involved in the teaching and mentoring of nurses, clinical officers and public health technicians in Maternal and Child Health (MCH), Rural Health Practice and decentralized district health systems. I am also involved in implementation of the “Community Strategy”, a community based approach developed by the Great Lakes University of Kisumu and adopted by the Ministry of Health. I am interested in approaches to improve the motivation of nurses and other health workers so as to retain them where they are needed most. Specifically, I would like to champion the concept that health worker motivation can be achieved through proper training and orienta-tion to local health problems, balanced with reason-able renumeration. “

Samuel Mulongo


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I completed my medical training from the St. John’s Medical College in Bangalore, India in 2007. Since my student days I have been actively involved with the Health For All movement as part of the People’s Health Movement network. After graduation, I worked for two years as a Medical Officer at Tribal Health Ini-tiative, a community health program which served the Malavasi adivasi community in the Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu. My interest in community health led me create www.communityhealth.in, an online, collabora-tive resource on community health in India. I also have worked as a Research Assistant studying stigma and mental health as part of a joint collaboration between the University College London and Banyan Academy for Leadership in Mental Health in Chennai, India. My work experiences led to an interest in problems re-lated to the access to and interpretation of biomedical care by marginalized groups. I am currently enrolled as a graduate student in anthropology at Syracuse University, USA.

Lalit Narayan


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Sara NDIAYE est né en 1981 au Sénégal où il prépare un Doctorant en sociologie sur l’analyse de la performance des systèmes de santé de district de Nongr-Massom (Burkina Faso) et de Touba (Sénégal) face au paludisme. Il est assistant de recherche au Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Etudes et de Re-cherche de la Vallée (CIERVAL) de l’Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis (Sénégal). Il est par ailleurs titulaire d’un Master en Population et Santé de l’Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population (ISSP) de l’Université de Ouagadougou avec une bourse de l’Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA). Il a débuté sa carrière professionnelle dans l’enseignement à l’Institut Africain de Santé Sociale de Diour-bel (Sénégal) et a participé à des travaux au profit de l’Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles (ISRA), de l’HYGEA, du Laboratoire Genre et Sociétés (GESTES) et de la Coopération Technique Belge (CTB). Ses travaux de recherche portent sur la performance du système de santé de district, la lutte contre le paludisme, les mutations socioculturelles et la crise sociale au Sud. Ses domaines d’enseignement couvrent la psychologie générale, la sociologie de la santé et les théories sociologiques. Membre fondateur du Collectif des Doctorants de l’Unité de Formation et de Recherche Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l’Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, il œuvre pour le développement des réseaux d’échanges entre chercheurs juniors du Sud. “

Sara Ndiaye


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I obtained my BScN from Jimma University March 1997, MPH from Addis Ababa University June 2002 and MPH health system management and policy from institute of tropical medicine from Antwerp, Belgium June 2010. I have been working in different health centres in Ethiopia and zonal health offices as maternal and child health coordinator. I also served as a lecturer in the public health faculty at Jimma University. I have tremendous experience working in Ethiopia as a national coordinator for HIV/AIDS/FP/RH integration and before that as a regional coor-dinator for HIV/AIDS Programming, Research and Evaluation for family health international. I specialize in public health, health systems management and policy, social research on HIV vulnerability, care and support, with extensive field experience in Ethiopia. My areas of interest include: health system design, implementation and strengthening, integration of health programs, institutional based comprehensive care services in-cluding counseling and testing, opportunistic infections management including ART, home and community based palliative care services, application of behaviour change communication strategy, responses for vulner-able populations, design of M&E frameworks, sexuality and gender, and reproductive health programs. I strive for universal health coverage of primary health care services.”

Tamrat Assefa Nigatu


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Manassé Nimpagaritse


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I am a Phd fellow in the Health Systems Research Unit (HSRU) at the South African Medical Research Council. I have been working in Public health as a researcher for about 8 years. My training is as fol-lows; MPH (Health Economics), University of Cape Town, MSc (Economics) University of Sussex, and Phd candidate, University of Bergen. The main themes of my research are measuring inequality in child health outcomes, costing analysis of lay health workers in a community randomised controlled trials (the trials were aimed at improving neonatal and child health), experiences of lay health workers (LHW) in promoting exclusive infant feeding and missed opportunities in the prevention of mother to child transmission. I also have an interest in retention and attrition of LHW, systematic reviews and the use of qualitative research in health economics. “

Lungiswa Nkonki


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Economiste planificateur de formation, j’ai par la suite obtenu le diplôme des Administrateurs des hôpitaux et de des services de santé. J’ai exercé pendant huit ans à des postes de directeur dans les centres hospitaliers régionaux de Gaoua et de Banfora. Ces centres sont des structures de deuxième niveau dans l’organisation du système de santé du Burkina Faso. Par la suite, j’ai obtenu un DESS en économie de la santé au Centre africain d’études supérieures et de management (CESAG) à Dakar (Sénégal). Depuis 2008, je suis chargé en service à la Direction des études et de la planification du Ministère de la santé. Je suis chargé d’études des questions de politique et particulièrement point focal du Ministère de la santé en matière d’assurance maladie communautaire. Je souhaite contribuer à l’amélioration de la perform-ance des systèmes de santé et à l’accès universel des populations en général et en particulier celles vulnérables aux soins de santé.”

Seydou Nombre


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Antwerp

With the background on Pharmaceutical Science, she had experiences in public hospitals of Thailand for some years. She has joined the International Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand (IHPP) as a full-time researcher since 2001. She expanded her knowledge and skill in Social Protection Financing from the Maastricht University, the Neth-erlands and sharpened her expertise by conducing PhD thesis in health care financing, especially for the poor in the least developed country, Lao PDR, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Upon return, she focuses in the field of health care financing at both the national and local levels e.g. National Health Account, long term projec-tion of health expenditures and costing exercise of healthcare facilities. In addition, she has expanded her work into health system and health policy researches e.g. “Government Capacity to Efficiently Regulate Public and Private Health Sectors” funded by the Rock-efeller Foundation, “Good Health at Low Cost” of five countries, including Thailand, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation through the collaboration and coordination of the LSHTM and the Country Development Partner-ship in Health with the World Bank.

Walaiporn Patcharanarumol


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Antwerp

A Medical Doctor by profession, graduated from University of Indonesia. I’ve recently acquired Master in Public Health Disease Control (MPH-DC) from ITM 2009/10. I have been working with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) since 2004, first in Indonesia for HIV, TB, outbreak investigations and response to emergencies. In 2006 I started my missions abroad. South Sudan (cholera, secondary health care), India (access to health care and MCH), Somalia (Kala Azar and TB), Ethiopia (nutrition program) and Darfur, Sudan (access to health care and MCH). I enjoyed both being field doctor and coordination positions. My diverse experience exposed me to different challenges both from programmatic and public health point of views, and I developed inclination towards issues of access to health care, especially for the marginalized populations. Currently I’m searching for opportunities to apply my knowledge and skills in any contexts. My particular interests include the rapidly changing field of global health, disease control programs especially neglected tropical diseases with insights on health system and management. I’m keen on constant development of skills and knowledge and fascinated by innovative ways to achieve health care for all. “

Temmy Sunyoto


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Antwerp

Physician, occupational health specialist with Masters in Political Studies. For several years I worked in education and research with trade unions on the issue of occupational health. Currently working with the Secretary of Health of Bogotá in participation in health issues. I´m a member of the Latin American Social Medicine - ALAMES, which was general coordinator 2004-2007. Also, I´m member of People’s Health Movement and the National Movement for Health in Colombia. My interests are in the areas of right to health, health and work, social protection systems and universal health care systems, social determinants of health, power and participation in health and social movements in health.”

Mauricio Torres-Tovar


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Antwerp

I did my undergraduate study in business manage-ment in 1987 and soon took up a job in Jimma Institute of Health Sciences (JIHS), Ethiopia, serving in various management positions including head of administration and finance and human resource administration; along side my administrative roles I worked as an assistant lecturer and lecturer of health services management from 1988 to 1996 in JIHS. Later I joined graduate program in health policy, plan-ning and financing at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, in 1997 which strengthened my interest and activity in public health. Currently I am working as an assistant professor of health serv-ice management, health policy and health economics in Jimma University, Ethiopia; besides, for the last nine years, I have been working as a vice president of the University playing a crucial role in expansion of the Uni-versity. I am also local coordinator of VLIR Institutional University Cooperation (IUC), a collaborative program operated by Jimma University and five Flemish uni-versities in Belgium. Starting from 2009 I am a PhD candidate at ITM, Belgium, with a specific research interest in health policy looking at the effectiveness and impact of Ethiopian health extension program; my other areas of research interest include human resources for health and health care financing.”

Kora Tushune


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Antwerp

Anar Ulikpan, I am a medical doctor specialised in pae-diatrics. I have also completed my Masters in Public Health from Nuffield Institute for International Health, University of Leeds, UK in 2006. Most of my work ex-perience is in the field of health planning, policy devel-opment and health management. I have been working in health planning and policy development since 2003 with the Ministry of Health, Mongolia. I was a member of the Core Group, which led the process for the devel-opment of the Health Sector Master Plan 2006-2015 in Mongolia, hence strategic planning has become my other field of interest and enthusiasm. During the last 2 years, my experience has consisted of working as an advisor with the Asian Development Bank -MoH joint project in Health management and Sector-wide approaches. It made me realize deeply the crucial need for strengthening local capacity, health manage-ment systems and promoting harmonisation of the efforts made by the international and domestic health partners. I am interested in contributing to providing better health services through improving the health system, increasing the capacity of the policy makers, health managers, building partnerships and improving system effectiveness and efficiency through employing Sector-wide approaches.

Anar Ulikpan


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Antwerp

Chirurgien dentiste convertie Economiste de la santé, je travaille depuis 2 mois dans le développement com-me chargée de mission sur un projet handicap&VIH au Sénégal. Précédemment consultante, je me suis surtout intéressée aux domaines de la politique, du financement et de la planification en santé notamment avec les Cadre de dépense sectoriels. Par ailleurs, quelques travaux m’ont conduit à la recherche clinique mais surtout à apprécier l’importance du diagnostic souvent négligé pour la bonne marche de toute or-ganisation qui se veut efficiente. Mon premier amour professionnel, n’est pas une erreur, au contraire, il a été l’occasion pour moi d’exercer pendant plus de 4 ans une médecine emprunte de créativité et de sensi-bilité. Au-delà de ce fait, il m’a révélé le besoin d’offrir plus que des services, mais un système accessible et conscient des inégalités si visibles dans mon pays natal le Burkina Faso. Mon inspiration, ma motivation prennent là leurs racines et je reste intimement con-vaincue qu’avec un peu plus de volonté et de sérieux, dans ce moule naturel de solidarité, un équilibre est quelque part possible. Enfin, un cri du cœur à l’endroit des décideurs africains : aucun édifice durable et digne ne s’est construit dans la précipitation…”

Aïda Zerbo


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Antwerp

My name is Khim Keovathanak (called Vathanak). I am from Cambodia. I graduated in 2001 with a Master’s degree in public health from New York University, USA, where I studied with support of Fulbright scholarship. I have worked for more than 10 years in the Cambodian public health system for different organizations such as RACHA, a USAID-funded maternal and child health program, UNFPA and PSI, all in the area of monitoring and evaluation. From 2006 onward before going back to school I worked as consultant in the health sector specialized in program evaluation and health system strengthening. In 2008-2009 I was in the consulting team of Oxford Policy Management for the formulation of Health Sec-tor Support Project 2 for the Ministry of Health and the estab-lishment of government-run, donor-funded Special Operating Agencies (SOA), the Cambodian government’s reform agenda to improve public sector services. I’m currently pursuing PhD study in health system at the University of Melbourne, Aus-tralia, on Ausaid’s Australia Leadership Award programme. My PhD research project focuses on the recent health reform being undertaken by the Ministry of Health in Cambodia using internal contracting. I believe that in developing countries health development is one of key aspects to successful poverty alleviation and overall country development. To reach that, equity in access to and utilisation of health services for all and improving the healthcare system and the quality of health services are a must. My research interest encompasses these areas. For now, I am particularly interested in research-ing the area of health system strengthening, including health financing, contracting and private sector involvement.”

Vathanak Khim


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Antwerp

I graduated from medical school in 2003 from Mysore, India. I learnt what causes illness in college. As a doctor among tribal people in South India and North-east India, I saw first hand how health care is socially, geographically, culturally and oftentimes, politically determined. I traversed through the Indian health care services as a doctor in an NGO, as a medical officer in a PHC and subsequently as a trainer of health workers. Fascinated by innovations, I worked on eHealth and community health insurance at primary health care implementing these innova-tions in PHCs run under Public-private Partnership. In course of my work, mental health services in primary health care captivated my time and attention. After my Masters in 2008 from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp I have been a Faculty at Institute of Public Health, Bangalore (IPH). At IPH, I am involved in capacity building of district and taluka health teams in managing health services. For my PhD at ITM, I am studying the mechanisms through which capacity building of health workforce changes management practices. I believe that health workers are the most critical determinants of the performance of a health system. Apart from public health, I contribute to vari-ous open information/software initiatives including DHIS and am an editor and reviewer on Wikipedia and related projects.”

Prashanth Nuggehalli Srinivas


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Antwerp

Family Physician working as a senior Medical officer in Rolpa District Hospital under Ministry of Health and Population(MOH). Currently doing Residency in Radiodiagnosis in National Academy of Medical Sciences(NAMS),Kathmandu. President of Nepalese eHealth and Telemedicine Association. Member of International society of Telemedicine In this 21st century, technology has played revolutionary role in every field. If we can make modern technology easily accessible to most of the people, divided so far by geographical, cultural or some other forms of barrier, They will be gathered under a single umbrella. Hence, incorporation of modern technology into health serv-ice delivery system is highly Recommended especially in remote areas to achieve our universal goal ‘Health care for all’.”

Shishir Dahal


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Antwerp

Je suis médecin et travaille au Pérou. Mon spécialité est la Médicine de maladies infectieuses et tropi-cales. Je faisais les études du Master de Economie de la Santé au Pérou et après j’ai fait le Master de Santé Publique, option Contrôle des Maladies dans l’Institute de Médicine Tropicale d’Anvers. Je travaille dans l’Institute National de la Santé. Nous avons travaillé avec les laboratoires de référence nationale pour développer systèmes de surveillance basés au laboratoire (résistance antibiotique, fébriles, etc.). Egalement, nous promouvions la formation des programmes de contrôle de qualité externe des laboratoires de microbiologie et des banques de sang. Nous avons participé de recherches pour décrire la distribution des différentes maladies infectieuses au Pérou. Maintenant, nous sommes très intéressés de promouvoir l’utilisation des preuves scientifiques pour la pris de décision aux politiques de santé. Nous sommes une équipe de travail qui a commencé pour préparer des revues systématiques à partir de la demande du Ministère de la Santé. Egalement, nous avons proposé de faire l’évaluation opérationnelle des interventions des programmes de santé. Nous voudri-ons que las politiques de santé et les interventions de notre système de santé sont basées sur les preuves scientifiques, le cout efficacité et la équité.”

Victor Suárez Moreno


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Antwerp

Clinician by training, Sanjib Kumar Sharma is Faculty of Medicine, Chief of Diabetes and Nephrology service and memebr of clinical epidemiology unit at B P Koi-rala Institute of Health sciences, a teaching university hospital in Nepal. As a faculty member, his main duties are to teach undergraduates and postgradu-ates of medicine, provide preventive an curative service and conduct research. Primarily interested in the impact of engaging primary health centers (and equivalents) and community for detection and preven-tion of NCD in resource poor setting. Another area of research includes empowering paramedics and health assistance in management of snakebite and chronic diseases in rural area.

Sanjib Kumar Sharma

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Emerging voice


Antwerp

I graduated from medical school in 2001. Subsequently, I worked as a general medical practitioner in a district hospital where tropical diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and visceral leishmaniasis are common health problems. After 6 months of service in the hospital, I was promoted to be the medical director of the hospital and served for four years in that post. I then developed interest for management of disease control programs. I applied for and got scholarship in the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, and studied Master of Science in Disease control in 2005/2006. After I finished my studies, I came back to Ethiopia and was assigned as the National AIDS Program Manager in September 2006. I worked with that role for 2 and half years until December 2008. It was indeed a successful experience both for the country and me, and I learnt and contributed a lot. The coun-try introduced and started to implement a reform initiative called “business process reengineering” in 2009. I was then transferred to the Ministry of Health as Director of Medical Services which is responsible for health service delivery at health centers and hospitals in the country. By then, I had already started PhD study, and I had to work both on my job and PhD. Hence, I faced time constraints to run both. After 1 year and 4 months as Director of Medical Services in the Ministry, I have been working with Federal HIV/AIDS Preven-tion and Control Office as Director of Planning and Monitoring & Evaluation since June 2010. My area of interest is “disease control programs and health systems” for better health outcomes. “

Yibeltal Assefa


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Antwerp

I am an Ethiopian and a medical doctor by profession, having diploma in tropical medicine and public health from Swiss tropical institute in 1996, and masters in public health orientation in disease control from Prince Leopold institute of tropical medicine, Antwerp in 2010. As a developing country practitioner I prac-ticed medicine for the last twenty years integrating clinical medicine with public health. I worked as district health manager, and General practitioner in rural Ethiopia. Since 2000 working as medical director and led National telemedicine project from 2002 up to 2006. I have special interest in e-health applications and believe that Information Communication Technol-ogy can assist and support the weakened health care delivery system of developing countries. The fast pace of mobile penetration in Africa and wireless technol-ogy can be taken as an opportunity to use it for health promotion and disease prevention. The technology especially at the grass root level making the com-munity to participate in the decision making of their own health, and bringing health care and promotion to them. Even though e-health applications showed prom-ises still developing countries have to rely, and benefit from global partnership between north and south in terms of knowledge transfer, research, capacity build-ing and infrastructure development.

Fassil Shiferaw Degefu


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Antwerp

Dr KADIO Bernard, MD, Master degree in Internation-al Health. 38 years old, from Côte d’Ivoire. Cur-rently working as Medical Director of the Bingerville (Abidjan) Humanitary Hospital and as Africa Consult-ant for Pensacola Chritian College (PCC) of Florida, US for international health and health inequalities issues. Since 2008, I am also working on a project with French SPACE INSTITUE (MEDES) in Toulouse for implementation of Health Early Warning System for major epidemics in West Africa.

Bernard Kadio


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Antwerp

Je suis de nationalité camerounaise, Médecin, titulaire d’un Master en Santé publique, Option Politique et Management des systèmes de santé. J’ai travaillé comme Médecin chef de district de Méri et Directeur de l’Hôpital de district de Méri, dans la Région de l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun de 1996 à 2006. J’ai suivi en 2006/2007, le cours de Master en santé publique à l’Institut de Médecine Tropicale d’Anvers en Belgique (IMT) et j’ai participé en 2008 aux activités de recherche. Depuis décembre 2009, j’ai débuté la formation doctorale (PhD) à l’IMT en partenariat avec l’université Catholique de Louvain-Belgique sur l’interface entre les programmes verticaux et les serv-ices de santé généraux en Afrique sub-saharienne. Mes domaines d’intérêt sont le financement des sys-tèmes de santé et l’interaction entre les programmes verticaux et les services de santé généraux dans les pays à faible revenu.

Basile Keugoung


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