Dr Abdul Momin Kazi is the site director and co-PI on the CHAMPS Pakistan site. Dr Momin is an assistant professor at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. He is a PhD candidate with the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, […]
Dr. Muhammad Faruk Bashir is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Bauchi, Nigeria and a Chief Consultant in Pediatric Endocrinology at the affiliated teaching hospital, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) Bauchi. With over a decade of teaching, practicing and research in Pediatrics, he has 37 peer-reviewed journal article […]
Ziyaad Dangor is the Co-Director of CHAMPS South Africa and a pediatric pulmonologist at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto. As a researcher, Ziyaad completed his doctoral thesis on Group B Streptococcal disease’s clinical and immunological epidemiology at the Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit. In addition, his research interests include childhood TB, sequelae […]
Dr. Shabir Madhi is a Professor of Vaccinology and Director of the Medical Research Council Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa. He holds the position of Research Chair supported by Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation in Vaccine Preventable Diseases and co-Director of the African […]
Dr. Ike Ogbuanu is a medical doctor and epidemiologist with more than 25 years of progressive experience in clinical medicine, academic research, global public health, vaccinology, leadership, and management. In addition to peer-reviewed publications in HIV/AIDS, infectious disease epidemiology, vaccine-preventable diseases, and genetic epidemiology, he has substantial clinical and programmatic experience in the control of […]
Dr. Amara Jambai (MD, MSc, DLSHTM) is a distinguished public health leader and former senior government official with decades of service to Sierra Leone’s health sector. He previously served as Chairman of NACOVERC (2021-2023), Deputy Minister of Health (2019-2020), Chief Medical Officer (2018-2019), and Director of Disease Prevention and Control. From 2002 to 2008, he […]
As a pediatrician, with a special interest in infectious disease epidemiology and public health, Professor Bassat has attempted to combine his clinical work with biomedical research in those diseases that most affect the poor and vulnerable. Dr. Bassat’s research has always relied on the premise that there is no greater public health intervention than that […]
Dr. Mandomando is the Senior Researcher & Coordinator of Diarrheal Disease Research Area and Laboratory Advisor in the Manhiça Health Research Center (CISM) in Mozambique. Dr. Mandomando completed his undergraduate studies in 1999 in Veterinary Medicine at Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique. Shortly after graduating, he joined CISM in 2000. He completed his Ph.D. in […]
