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 20 years of progressive experience in clinical medicine, academic research, global public health, vaccinology, leadership and management. In addition to peer-reviewed publications inHIV/AIDS, vaccine-preventable diseases and genetic epidemiology, he has substantial clinical and programmatic experience in the control of tropical and infectious diseases […]
Dr. Amara Jambai currently holds the position of Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Ministry of Health and Sanitation of Sierra Leone. He is the former Director for Disease Prevention and Control at the same ministry. From 2002 through 2008, Dr. Jambai was the District Medical Officer for the Western area in Sierra Leone. Dr. […]
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 […]
Rosauro Varo completed his undergraduate at the University of Córdoba (Spain), where he also qualified as a pediatrician in 2011. He received a diploma in International cooperation and Humanitarian aid at the National university of Education over a distance, Madrid, Spain (2009); a MSc in Tropical pediatrics at the Liverpoll School of Tropical Medicine (2012 […]
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 […]
