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Dr Barbara Burmen is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health in the US. As a specialist in implementation science, her work focuses on using health data to support evidence-based...
Dr Pauline Bakibinga is an associate research scientist at the African Population and Health Research Center in Kenya. After gaining her PhD in 2013, Pauline left her home in Uganda and moved to Kenya, where she wanted to focus on strengthening healthcare to help the...
Dr Joseph Matovu is senior lecturer at Busitema University and senior research associate at Makerere University in Uganda. His research aims to improve HIV testing and links to HIV healthcare among men and young people in the Kasensero fishing community in Rakai,...
Dr Zachary Kwena is a social scientist at the Kenya Medical Research Institute. His research addresses HIV prevention in high-risk groups, particularly among married couples in Kenyan fishing communities. Global efforts to end HIV by 2030 focus on reducing and...
In 2015 Dr Leopold Tientcheu secured a three-month fellowship in South Africa, at the University of Cape Town’s Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research In Africa. An immunologist and molecular biologist from Cameroon, Leopold is based at the MRC Unit in...
Dr Oluwafemi Akande is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria. He began his career in a field far removed from global health research. But by combining his knowledge of building design with his interest...
Dr Martha Mwangome is a research scientist at KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kenya. In 2019, Martha was awarded an AREF fellowship and began a placement at Jimma University in Ethiopia to learn about the latest techniques in assessing the body composition...
Dr Akin Ojagbemi from University of Ibadan, Nigeria, started his fellowship in 2017, undertaking a placement at the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain. Akin’s research aims to develop and expand access to mental health services for older adults living in Nigeria...
Dr El Hadji Amadou Niang is an Assistant Professor in medical entomology from Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) in Senegal where he studies the role of insects in transmitting diseases to humans.