HIFA2015 Country Representatives

HIFA2015 Country Representatives are volunteers who are committed to help achieve the HIFA2015 goal in their country. They are critically important in (1) raising awareness about the importance of access to healthcare knowledge, and (2) engaging new members in their country to join HIFA2015. Guidelines for Country Representatives are available here.

HIFA2015 Country representatives are provided with technical support to:
1. Distribute the HIFA2015 Leaflet (PDF, 260kb) by email to colleagues and networks, and print out the leaflet for distribution at meetings and conferences.
2. Prepare and give presentations to their colleagues and conferences, about HIFA2015 and the special importance of availability and use of healthcare information in their country. A generic Powerpoint presentation (2.1Mb) is available here: Introduction to HIFA2015.

If you have been a member of the HIFA2015 Forum for at least 3 months and would like to discuss the possibility of becoming a HIFA2015 Country Representative, please contact the HIFA2015 Coordinator (Neil Pakenham-Walsh). If you are not yet a member of the HIFA2015 Forum, please join.

HIFA2015 currently has 80 Country Representatives in the following 38 countries:

• Bangladesh: Shariful Islam, Jenifer Binta Yeasin
• Burundi: Benedicte Dundaguza
• Cameroon: Gwewasang Martin, Ngala Elvis Mbiydzenyuy, James Mbungyuh Tseyah
• Canada: Alanna Fennell, Carrol Zhou
• China: Lily King
• Democratic Republic of Congo: Andre Shongo
• Denmark: Per Kallestrup
• Egypt: Randa Abu-Youssef
• Ethiopia: Getachew Bayissa, Workineh Getahun
• Ghana: Eben Afari-Kumah, Solomon Sulemani
• India: Mittal Abhishek, Soumyadeep Bhaumik (HIFA Country Representative of the Year 2012), Tamoghna Biswas, Pranab Chatterjee, Vivek Chhabra, Nisha Dahiya, Gopal Ghosh, Manish Kumar, Ramachandran Murali, Anantha Naik Nagappa, Murali Prasad, Ron Varghese, Sankalp Yadav
• Ireland: Nadine France
• Italy: Paola De Castro (HIFA Country Representative of the Year 2012)
• Kenya: Muthoni Gichohi, Beatrice Muraguri
• Kosovo: Hektor Binishi
• Macedonia: Tatjana Martinoska
• Malawi: Bernard Chilombe
• Malaysia: Zuhanariah Mohd Nordin
• Mali: Abdrahamane Anne
• Mauritius: Shakeel Panchoo
• Mozambique: Cristina Horta
• Namibia: Steve Kabamba
• Nepal: Tara Ballav Adhikari (HIFA Country Representative of the Year 2012), Amrit Banstola, Bishwa Raj Dawadi, Yadav Prasad Joshi, Sudarshan Paudel, Roman Shrestha
• Nigeria: Olayinka Akanke Abosede, Grace Ajuwon, Olayinka Ayankogbe, Princess E.O. Nwafor-Orizu (HIFA Country Representative of the Year 2011), Francis Ohanyido, Ekezie Ralueke Oluchukwu, Olukayode Yinka Oluyemi, Isaiah Oluwatobi Owolabi
• Oman: Afzal Siddique
• Pakistan: Immad Ali, Akhtar Amin, Majid Khan Kakakhel, Shafaat Khan, Usma Khan, Numan Majeed (HIFA Country Representative of the Year 2012), Maryam Noor Malik, Mahwish Nasim, Anis Rehman
• Philippines: Dennis Amando, Chiongbian Formoso, Patrick Soria
• Rwanda: Jean Bosco Gasherebuka, Emmanuel Ngabire
• Saudi Arabia: Jeba Rathnaraj
• South Africa: Volene Werely
• Tanzania: Haruna Hussein
• Uganda: Jane Akora, Alison Kinengyere, Daniel Stern
• United Arab Emirates: Syed Abdal Ahmad Khan
• USA: Bill Cayley
• West Bank/Gaza: Barbara Stilwell
• Zambia: Christine Kanyengo
• Zimbabwe: Agnes Chikonzo.

HIFA2015 Country Representatives in Africa

Olayinka Akanke Abosede is consultant in Community Health (Primary Health Care) at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, an Associate Professor at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria and Chairman of the Lagos State Primary Health Care Board. She is a Fellow of the Nigerian College of Physicians and the West African College of Physicians. She is also a Hubert Humphrey Fellow Alumnus (International Health at the Johns Hopkins University) and has been Resident Advisor to US based International Partners, Project Hope and Wellstart International. She is interested in sustainable community-based health interventions, poverty amelioration and early life education for under-fives. yinkabosede02 AT yahoo.com

Eben Afari-Kumah is a PhD candidate at the Accra Institute of Technology, Ghana. He is also a Research Scientist with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Ghana, and an adjunct Lecturer at the University of Ghana (School of Public Health and Business School). His Master’s Dissertation was on “Developing patient data mining system for the University of Ghana Hospital. Eben is currently researching into the adoption, use and sustainabilty of Telemedicine in Ghana. eben.afari AT gmail.com

Grace Ajuwon is the Reference and Information Services Librarian at the University of Ibadan, College of Medicine, E. Latunde Odeku Medical Library, Nigeria. agajuwon AT yahoo.com

Jane Amongi Akora is Librarian at WHO Country Office, Uganda. akoraj AT ug.afro.who.int

Abdrahamane Anne is librarian at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Bamako, Mali. girlajo AT gmail.com

Olayinka O. Ayankogbe is Senior Lecturer in Family Medicine and Head, Family Medicine Unit, Department Of Community Health and Primary care, College of Medicine, University of Lagos and also Consultant in charge of Family Medicine Unit, Primary Care Health Center, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Pakoto, Ogun state. His interests are in Primary Health Care, Adolescent care, quality improvement and Public/Private partnerships and ICPC-2 (International Classification of Primary Care). yinayanks AT yahoo.com

Getachew Bayissa is Head, Department of Information Science, Jimma University, Ethiopia, and is affiliated with University Library.

Agnes Chikonzo is a HIFA2015 Country Representative and medical librarian at the University of Zimbabwe, Harare. achikonzo AT uzlib.uz.ac.zw

Bernard Chilombe is a librarian with the Medical Research Institution Malawi and works with the North Carolina Project Malawi. bchilombe AT unclilongwe.org.mw

Benedicte Dundaguza is Documentalist at WHO, Bujumbura, Burundi. bdundaguza AT yahoo.com

Jean Bosco Gasherebuka works with World Health Organization/Rwanda as Health Information and Promotion Officer. His interests include Health Promotion, Health Community, School Health, Fighting against tobacco and other non communicable diseases and Health Information in general. gasherebukab AT rw.afro.who.int

Workineh Getahun is a pharmacist working at MSH/SIAPS- Ethiopia as Senior Technical Adviser for Drug and Therapeutics Committee/Drug Information Services(DTC/DIS). Duties include provision of technical assistance to stakeholders in the country to strengthen pharmaceutical services and promote rational use of medicines through the establishment and strengthening of DTCs and DIS at health facilities. workineh_2004 AT yahoo.com

Muthoni Gichohi works with Family Health Options Kenya and is the programme manager (Library and Information Services). Main interests: Administration, management and dissemination of multimedia health information to the medics, paramedics, patients, the aged, the disabled and other clients interested in health related information. mgichohi AT fhok.org

Cristina Horta is a medical librarian, working on Health Libraries, with a special interest for Virtual Libraries, with documents in Portuguese. Her focus is on training of medical, para-medical and auxiliary health professionals. She holds a Master in Library Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and was a USA National Library of Medicine Assistant Fellow in 2005/6. cristina AT zebra.uem.mz

Haruna Hussein is Chief Librarian at the Ministry of Health and Social Services, Tanzania. He is a HIFA Country Representative for Tanzania. harunahus AT yahoo.com
Steve N Kabamba is a Medical Officer at Swakopmund District Hospital, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Namibia. His professional interests include Child and Maternal Health. stevekabamba AT gmail.com

Christine Kanyengo is Deputy University Librarian at the School of Medicine, University of Zambia. mkanyengo AT yahoo.co.uk

Alison Kinengyere is Serials librarian at the Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda. alisonk AT chs.mak.ac.ug

Gwewasang Martin is a Family Health Clinician in private practice, researcher and development professional with over 15 years experience working on reproductive health/family planning and HIV/AIDS programs locally and internationally. He is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Adele Reproductive Health Foundation and Co-founder of the Youth Policy Group for Reproductive Health (YPG) project, based in Cameroon; he has worked extensively in Cameroon and overseas undertaking a range of technical and management assignments. Through the project of the Clinical Training Center for Family Planning, he is working with public health frontline professionals and volunteers to develop a package of interventions to make reproductive health/family planning training a standard part of medical education, as a means to promote a rights-based approach to care and would like to expand this to an international level. He would welcome contact from others with a similar interest in order to work collaboratively. He has a particular interest in family medicine, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, school and community health, abuse and gender-based violence. adele_healthcentre AT yahoo.fr

Ngala Elvis Mbiydzenyuy is Director of Institute of Science Technology Breastfeeding and Advocacy Center, Cameroon. The Institute of Science Technology Breastfeeding Research and Advocacy Center Cameroon, has as a mission to coordinate efforts by organizations, agencies, institutions, and individuals towards the development of strategic plans, policies, and goals for breastfeeding and to see that breastfeeding practices and attitudes are enforced in Cameroon and given priority as an indispensable step to achieving goal four (4) of the Millennium Development Goals. ACTIVITIES 1.BFRA collects, collates and disseminate information on breastfeeding science and guidelines. 2.BFRA focuses on collaborative work with grassroots maternal and child health and social service providers. 3.Training of community health workers, or lay health promoters, who make a personal commitment to improving the health of babies and infants. 4.Designing mobile Antenatal Clinic models which focus on goal-targeted ANC rather than traditional ANC 5.Assist organizations in developing programs that use the power of peer support, incorporating trained community health workers into positions in outreach, breastfeeding education and advocacy programs. 6.BFRA seeks to mobilize diverse stakeholders to build for policies and programs that improve breastfeeding practices in some of the most distressed communities in the country. 7.Offering of scholarships to community youth and adults to study midwifery and nursing in a bid to expanding knowledge of reproductive health and providing each household with a skilled birth attendant (Indicator 5.2 of MDG 5) 8.We are also involved in the training of Traditional Birth Attendants in modern and proper child birth practices and the prevention of postpartum hemorrhage in home births. elngala AT yahoo.co.uk

Beatrice Muraguri is Health Information Officer with the Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya. bemura68 AT yahoo.com

Emmanuel Ngabire is a Teacher at the National University of Rwanda. Professional interests: Quality Health Care for All. Health Promotion. engabire AT nur.ac.rw

Princess Uju Nwafor-Orizu (HIFA Country Representative of the Year 2011) – is a Medical Librarian at the Medical Library, College of Health Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nnewi, Anambra State Nigeria. hovoa2001 AT yahoo.com

2012: HIFA2015 Presentation, Medical Librarians Workshop, Calabar, Nigeria, November 2012

Francis Ohanyido is a Harvard postgraduate alumnus, Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (UK), and Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (UK). He is a seasoned Public Health Physician with a Health System Strengthening, Project Management, Malaria and Reproductive Health background. He has been a Visiting Associate Professor of Public Health and now and i-Novate 2100 Adjunct Professor of Project Management, and has worked at various times with WHO, UNICEF, UNHCR, USAID, Avallain | Google and so forth. He served as rapporteur for the UN Professional Support Group for MDGs in Africa a non-state Think-Tank. He has also been a pioneer advocate for Health Information Technology use in Africa, and was part of the core team that institutionalised the Pan-African Conference on Telemedicine and eHealth (PACTe). He holds advocacy positions as a Facilitator on the National Health Sector Reform Coalition (NHSRC) in Nigeria, Country Representative of HIFA2015, Chair of the International Public Health Forum (IPHF), and member of the Core Technical Committee of the national level of the Integrated Maternal Newborn and Child Health (IMNCH) partnership chaired by FMoH. In the past, he had served as Special Advisor to the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and Advisor to the Senate Committee on Health. He currently heads Synergy PMP a for-profit development-oriented project, information and knowledge management organisation as the Chief of Party /Team Leader, Nigeria. http://www.synergypmp.org.ng ohanyido AT doctor.com

Ekezie Ralueke Oluchukwu is a Nurse / Care Coordinator at Precious Health Care Ltd, Nigeria. Professional interests: Administration, Speech, Implementation, Primary Health Care,Home Care, Research. ekezier AT yahoo.com, Founder/CEO: Blue Torch Home Care Ltd. www.bluetorchhomecare.org ralueke AT bluetorchhomecare.org

Olukayode Yinka Oluyemi is a Urological Surgeon at Bliss Hospital, Ijoku, Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria, and Scholar of the Societie Internationale d’Urologie (2011). He was formerly at Division of Urological Surgery, Department of Surgery, University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, Nigeria. His professional interests include Endourology and Urolaparoscopy; Medical Education, Management and Financial Analysis. oluyemi AT urologist.md

Isaiah Oluwatobi Owolabi is Project Manager at HACEY (Health Actions Concerning the Environment and You), Nigeria. His professional interests include project management, information technology, writing and editing. toubyke AT yahoo.com

Shakeel Panchoo holds a MSc in Health Care Management, Wales, UK and a MSc Safety Promotion, KI, Sweden. He recently retired as Head of the Health Information, Education and Communication Unit at the Ministry of Health and Quality of Life, Mauritius. He is now Communication Manager at the Ministry of Environment & Sustainable Development. His recent achievement has been the production of short clip entitled ‘Maurice Ile Durable’ (Mauritius – A Sustainable Island) in English, French and Creole versions. This clip is available on www.mid.mu and the French version has been presented at the RIO+20 Earth Summit in Brazil in June 2012. He is also President of the Health and Safety Promotion Network (NGO). Professional interests include: (i) Health Promotion in view to bring about behaviour modifications in the lifestyles of the population, especially in children by informing and educating them about the benefits of adopting healthy lifestyles since their young age; (ii)Safety Promotion – educate both adults and children about safe behaviours at home, in their living environment and on the road, amongst others. shakeelpanchoo AT yahoo.com

Andre Shongo works with Programme Integre de Sante de Reproduction et Familiale (Integrated Program of Health of Reproduction and Family)-PISRF. He is a doctor, reproductive health provider and health communicator for the population. The Democratic republic of Congo is one of the few in Africa on progress towards the MDGs. It has been a slump for over a decade due to social instability, then as post-conflict country, the reconstruction program does not start at all, including health. Andre believes that for a large country like DR Congo, located in the heart of Africa and sharing borders with nine countries, it is not significant to leave entire groups of people in ignorance of a global approach. The pr iority is to raise awareness on the MDGs, especially MDG 4,5 and 6, information, education and communication on the health of both beneficiaries and suppliers in the Democratic Republic of Congo by 2015. pisrfrdc AT yahoo.fr

Daniel Stern is Director of Mobile Monday Kampala, and a co-founder of mHealth Uganda with a passion for helping countries attain MDGs 4 & 5. DanielRStern AT gmail.com

Solomon Bayugo Sulemani is Assistant Librarian (User Services) at the College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana. sbayugo AT yahoo.com

James Mbungyuh Tseyah is Chief Executive Officer at the Cameroon League for Development. Professional interests: To promote professionalism in Cameroon; Care and support for the Aged; Promote the education and the culture of our nation; Training seminars and workshops; Promote agriculture; Care and support for the under privilege widows and orphans; Promote research; Promote volunteerism; Social theatre; HIV and AIDS sensitisation and prevention. camleadngo AT gmail.com

Volene Werely is a Manager of health care, Lady Guinevere Academy, South Africa. Professional interests: Health Care, Maternal and child as well as youth; HIV/AIDS. Volenew AT gmail.com

HIFA2015 Country Representatives in the Americas

Bill Cayley is a family practice doctor working in Augusta, Wisconsin, USA (rural city of 1500). He teaches family medicine residents at the Eau Claire Family Medicine Residency (Eau Claire, WI, USA). His professional interests include Evidence-based medicine, primary care cardiology, and global health. bcayley AT yahoo.com

Alanna Fennell is one of the Directors of the Global Health Education program being run through the University of Toronto International Health Program (UTIHP), Canada. afennell AT gmail.com

Carrol Zhou is an undergraduate student in Life Sciences at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She is conducting a thesis project on spinal cord injury. 6cyz1 AT queensu.ca

HIFA2015 Country Representatives in Eastern Mediterranean Region

Randa Abu-Youssefis a medical student from Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria, Egypt. daretobe85 AT yahoo.com

Immad Ali is a Medical Technologist at Medical Sciences, Pakistan. Professional interests: Immad_rulz_4ever AT yahoo.com

Akhtar Amin is Founder and President, PMSRS (Pakistan Medical Students Research Society). PMSRS has 500 members and coordinators in 20 colleges. PMSRS has conducted workshops and seminars, and linked 26 students via a Student Mentor Project (a project that links students to researchers and finds a place for them to work as a research assistant). PMSRS plans to develop collaborations in order to promote research among medical students. www.pmsrs.com akhtar.amin AT live.com

Majid Khan Kakakhel is a medical student at the Peshawar Medical College in Pakistan. Professional interests: work in Health Care Organizations, Charity and Welfare. majidjankakakhel@gmail.com

Shafaat A Khan is Advisor/ Head of Health Informatics Department, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. He is a consultant radiologist and has an interest in public health, and teaching and research in Health Informatics. drshafaat AT comsats.edu.pk

Syed Abdal Ahmad Khan is an Assistant Librarian at Ras al-Khaimah Medical & Health Sciences University in United Arab Emirates. syed.abdal AT rakmhsu.ac.ae

Uzma Khan is a community midwifery trainer and clinical supervisor in Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Ministry of Health, Government of Punjab, Pakistan. Professional interests: community health specifically mother and child health. dr.uhkhan AT yahoo.com

Numan Majeed (HIFA Country Representative of the Year 2012) is a medical graduate from Pakistan. Along with studies, he is working as editor/reviewer and for several medical journals. He is also involved in a number of medical societies/associations. He has done some researches himself, and is now guiding other students regarding research and publication. Basic interests are clinical genetics and molecular medicine. a1num86 AT gmail.com

Maryam Noor Malik is a Medical Student at the Rawalpindi Medical College, Pakistan. Professional interests: I’m currently a student in my final year and would like to work as a gynaecologist in the social development health sector. She is also Regional Chairperson for Asian Medical Student Association (AMSA) Pakistan. maryam.malik28 AT yahoo.com

Mahwish Nasim is a Medical student at Dow Medical College, Pakistan. Professional interests: reading articles on health issues; involve in research work; interested in writing articles on health issues. mahwish-nasim AT hotmail.com

Jeba Rathnaraj is a Midwifery Diploma Coordinator at Riyadh Military Hospital, Saudi Arabia. Her professional interests include Nursing, Midwifery, Health Education, Leadership and Management. jebajothipriya AT hotmail.com

Anis Rehman works as a Physician at Al Barkat Welfare Medical Center and as a Research Associate at Advanced Educational Institute and Research Center, Pakistan. In recent past, he has done research at Johns Hopkins, USA and Dow University, Pakistan. He established Pakistan Medical Students’ Research Society (www.pmsrs.com) and launched Journal of Pakistan Medical Students (www.jpmsonline.com) where he is Associate Chief Editor. At the moment he is looking for a paid research in UK/USA as a research associate/research assistant/Post doc fellow in internal medicine/sub specialties. Long term career goals include getting post grad training in internal medicine from United States and to work as a certified physician. anisramay AT gmail.com

Afzal Siddique is a Medical Officer at the Ministry of Health, Oman. Professional interests: Health care information. Community health. Disaster management. bonescan2010 AT hotmail.com

Barbara Stilwell is Chief of Party for the Palestinian Health Capacity Project based in Ramallah, West Bank. She is also a Senior Director for Health Workforce Solutions for IntraHealth International, and provides technical inputs to IntraHealth’s work.

HIFA2015 Country Representatives in Europe

Hektor Binishiis a Specialist of Family Medicine and Coordinator of Family Medicine Training Centre & Learning Resource Centre, Gjakova, Kosovo. Interests include implementation of IT in health care, and evidence based medicine. hbinishi AT yahoo.com

Paola De Castro (HIFA Country Representative of the Year 2012) is Director of the Publishing Unit at Istituto Superiore di Sanita’, Italy. Professional interests: open access publishing, training, information literacy, editing, international cooperation. paola.decastro AT iss.it

Nadine Ferris France is Operations Director of Irish Forum for Global Health, Ireland. Professional interests: HIV and AIDS, TB, gender, reproductive health, violence against women, information, communication and advocacy. nadine AT globalhealth.ie

Per Kallestrup is a Medical Doctor, Specialist of Family Medicine and works in a large 8-partner-Practice close to Aarhus, Denmark. He is Chairman of Partners in Practice an International Development Programme of the Danish College of General Practitioners devoted to fostering development of Primary Health Care worldwide through established partnerships facilitating consultancies, expertise and skills transfer services. He is Director of Center for Global Health at Aarhus University GloHAU focusing on the contribution of Primary Health Care to Global Health through research and education. kallestrup AT dadlnet.dk

Tatjana Martinoska is Secretary General of Quality of Life Improvement Organization, Republic of Macedonia. tatjana AT qlio.org.mk

HIFA2015 Country Representatives in South East Asia

Mittal Abhishekis a medical student and young researcher at the Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India. He has worked as Google Campus Health Ambassador for Google Health Speak Project in association with Wikipedia which was aimed at making health knowledge accessible to all irrespective of their language. mittal.abhishek16 AT gmail.com

Tara Ballav Adhikari (HIFA Country Representative of the Year 2012) is Focal Point In-charge of People’s Health Movement Nepal Students’ Circle. Mr. Adhikari is Health worker and advocating for health rights of people. Professional interest, passion and perception of Adhikari is Peoples health needs and problems. Which always motivated him to help them to do better.He wants to see people educated,empowered and healthy. For achieving these he works for them, believing in advocacy “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed”. adhikaritaraballav AT gmail.com

Amrit Banstola is editor in chief of Public Health Perspective (PHP) Online Newsletter, Nepal. real_amit AT hotmail.com

Soumyadeep Bhaumik (HIFA Country Representative of the Year 2012) is a physician and an independent medical researcher working on an honorary basis as resident editor in Your Health, a magazine by Indian Medical Association (IMA) to propogate health and awareness among Indians – thus it is premised on the same priniciple as HIFA. He is also the Editor and Head of News at Journal of Pakistan Medical Students (JPMS) and Editorial Consultant at JPMS Blogs. Previously Soumyadeep was a Medical Sub Editor of the Journal of Indian Medical Associtation, India. Professional interests: Resource poor health care systems, medical ethics and medical literature. soumyadeepbhaumik AT rediffmail.com

Tamoghna Biswas is a medical student at Medical College Kolkata, India. Professional interests include: 1. Health care 2. Translational research 3. Basic science research. tamoghnab AT gmail.com

Pranab Chatterjee is a doctor, recently qualified from the Medical College, West Bengal University of Health Sciences, Kolkata, India. His professional interests include Translational Research and Neurology. http://pranabchatterjee.wordpress.com pranabchatterjee AT hotmail.com

Vivek Chhabra is a Specialty Emergency Physician at James Paget University Hospital, UK. After basic and advanced training by Indian Army and corporate sector and experiences in the field of Emergency and Trauma Medicine at regional and tertiary settings in the UK and Australia he is pursuing installation of point of care systems of emergency medical care in India and applied same while serving MAX Healthcare. Besides faculty for ATLS®, American College of Surgeons, he has special interest in the field of Disaster Medicine which reflects from services in Bihar Floods 2008 via Doctors For You and pioneer Senior Specialist position with National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Govt of India where contributed for Medical Preparedness, H1N1 Pandemic and Guidelines for Management of Dead. He also happens to be the only medical doctor of India trained in didactic Management of Dead in Disasters by ICRC at Geneva, Switzerland. drvivekchhabra AT yahoo.co.uk

Nisha Dahiya is a Medical Student at Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali Govt. Medical Sciences & Research Institute, Uttarakhand, India. Professional interests: 1. Cardiology, Obs gynae and oncology. 2. Research in oncology and infertility in gynaecology. nishadahiyaarya AT gmail.com

Bishwa Raj Dawadi is a community based family physician with YASHA, Nepal. bishwadawadi AT hotmail.com

Gopal Chandra Ghosh is a medical post graduate student of internal medicine at PGIMER & Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, India. He is a peer reviewer in “Journal of Medical Case Reports”. Professional interests: 1. interventional cardiology, 2.working for underpriviledged society of India, 3. improving knowledge of basic health providers in rural India. gcghosh86 AT gmail.com

Shariful Islam is a Senior Research Investigator at the Center for Chronic Diseases, International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B), Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has 12 years of experience with United Nations, NGOs, research and academic institutes in health programs and research interventions. His area of interest include: chronic non-communicable diseases, health systems, operations research, maternal and child health and health rights. sharif.undp AT gmail.com

Manish Kumar works with the Vistaar Project in India. IntraHealth International, Inc. is the lead implementing agency for this USAID funded maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition project. Manish is interested in knowledge-to-practice issues for getting evidence integrated into public health programs and policies. mkumar AT intrahealth.org

Ramachandran Murali is Professor and Head, Community Medicine Department, Chettinad Hospitals and Research Institute, India. His professional interests include Health information System, Rational use of drugs, Eradication of diseases – both communicable and non communicable diseases, Participation in global Health related activities, Environmental Health. drsmurali49 AT gmail.com

Anantha Naik Nagappa works at Manipul University, India. He has an interest in the management of health services. anantha1232000 AT gmail.com

Sudarshan Paudel is Assistant Profesor of Health Education and Behaviour Promotion and Coordinator of Community Based Learning & Education (CBLE) in Department of Community Health Science at Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Nepal. He is public health person by training and have long experience of working in rural remote community. sudarshanpaudel AT gmail.com

Murali Prasad is Chief Librarian at the Public Health Foundation of India, Indian Institute of Public Health. murali.prasad AT iiphh.org

Yadav Prasad Joshi has completed MSc in Zoology majoring Parasitology and MA in Psychology majoring Clinical Psychology from Tribhuvan University Nepal. He has more than 10 years teaching experience in different colleges of Nepal in Zoology, Parasitology, Epidemiology, Physiology, Anatomy etc. He has current affiliation with different institutions as: Lecturer in Kantipur College of Medical Science Nepal, Editorial Board Member in the Journal of Infection for Developing Countries Italy, Advisory Committee Member in Nepal Public Health Network, Biology Sub Group Member in Working Group with New TB Drugs USA and Scientific Officer for South Asia in Biodyss (Member of Stop TB Partnership) France. Mr. Joshi has wide area of research experience in infectious diseases epidemiology in particular HIV, TB and malaria. He has published the research papers both in national and international journals. He is particularly interested to work in the HIV, TB malaria and infectious diseases with respect to climate change mostly in African and Asian nations. yadav_joshi at yahoo dot co dot in

Roman Shrestha is Founder and Co-Director of Nepal Public Health Network, Nepal. He is an emerging Public Health leader with strong passion and desire to gain practical, hands-on experience in the field, both nationally and internationally. His practice/research interests include global health, infectious diseases (particularly HIV/AIDS), health care disparities, program evaluation and health policy and program. Upon completion of MPH in Epidemiology, Roman plan to transition into a doctoral program in Global Health focusing on infectious disease. Additionally, Roman wants to continue working in a leadership capacity for Nepal Public Health Network and focus on implementing different collaborating processes among public health organizations, academes, and health care professionals of Nepal and abroad. romanshre AT gmail.com

Ron Thomas Varghese is a Medical Officer/Doctor at Karunya Vishranthi Bhavan, Trivandrum, Kerala State, India. Professional interests include Medical Research, Public Health, Diabetes, Hypertension, Lifestyle diseases, Health care inequalities. ronthomasv AT gmail.com

Sankalp Yadav is a medical student at Rural Medical College, Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, Loni, Maharashtra, India. Professional interests: Sankalp is interested in taking a job which gives opportunity to create mass awareness about health, hygiene and proper knowledge about various government schemes, and would love to work for curing the sufferings of the underprivileged sections and the most important to make health professionals well aware of the basic knowledge, so that no patient should die because of lack of knowledge and facilities. sankalpy AT yahoo.com

Jenifer Binta Yeasin is a Medical Student at Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh. Professional interests: Medical research, medicine,paediatrics, public health, medical campaign. jenifer_adhora AT yahoo.com

HIFA2015 Country Representatives in Western Pacific Region

Dennis G Amando is Research Coordinator at the University of Southern Mindanao, College of Health Sciences in the Philippines. He is also currently the President of Philippine Nursing Research Society, Inc (PNRSI) – North Cotabato Cell. Professional interests: Community Health, Nursing Education, Research and Management, Gerontology. dennis_2bu AT yahoo.com

Chiongbian Formoso is a nurse researcher at UP Manila-Philippine General Hospital, nursing services – dnrd, Philippines. Professional interests: nursing informatics, nursing research, free and open source software. jhformosojr AT post.upm.edu.ph

Lily King is the Director of China Britain Health Link UK. Professional interests: Bring together partnership between the Chinese health sectors and those of the UK or other countries. To tackle global health care staff shortage issues. Lily king is campaigning for free healthcare for all worldwide by the year 2015. King.cbha AT gmail.com

Zuhanariah Mohd Nordin is Deputy Chief Librarian at International Medical University, Malaysia. Professional interests: Information Literacy, Medical Health Information. zuhanariah_mhdnordin AT imu.edu.my

Patrick Soria is Head Nurse – Surgery Ward, Southern Philippines Medical Center, and Vice-President for Programs & Development at the Southern Philippines Medical Center Nurses Association Inc., Davao City, Philippines. psoriarn AT yahoo.com

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