HIFA2015 Country Representatives

HIFA2015 has Country Representatives in the following countries:

• Bangladesh: Shariful Islam
• Burundi: Benedicte Dundaguza
• Canada: Alanna Fennell, Carrol Zhou
• China: Lily King
• Egypt: Randa Abu-Youssef
• Ethiopia: Getachew Bayissa
• Ghana: Eben Afari-Kumah, Solomon Sulemani
• India: Pranab Chatterjee, Tamoghna Biswas, Vivek Chhabra, Gopal Ghosh, Manish Kumar, Ramachandran Murali, Murali Prasad, Ron Varghese, Sankalp Yadav
• Ireland: Nadine France
• Kenya: Muthoni Gichohi, Beatrice Muraguri
• Malawi: Bernard Chilombe
• Malaysia: Zuhanariah Mohd Nordin
• Mali: Abdrahamane Anne
• Mozambique: Cristina Horta
• Nepal: Sudarshan Paudel
• Nigeria: Grace Ajuwon, Olayinka Ayankogbe, Princess E.O. Nwafor-Orizu (HIFA Country Representative of the Year 2011), Francis Ohanyido, Isaiah Oluwatobi Owolabi
• Pakistan: Akhtar Amin, Anis Rehman
• Rwanda: Jean Bosco Gasherebuka
• Saudi Arabia: Jeba Rathnaraj
• Somalia: Abdirashid Hashi Abdi
• Tanzania: Haruna Hussein
• Uganda: Jane Akora, Alison Kinengyere, Daniel Stern
• Zambia: Christine Kanyengo
• Zimbabwe: Agnes Chikonzo.

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.

HIFA2015 Country Representatives in Africa

Abdirashid Hashi Abdi is HIV GFATM (Global Fund) Coordinator with UNICEF, Somalia. He is a medical doctor and is interested in issues addressing HIV/AIDS, Child health and Healthcare systems. He is stationed at Hargeisa, Somalia. He has nearly 10 years in clinical practice and healthcare management. Somalia has one of the highest mortality indicators in children and mothers. Interventions that showed high success in other parts of the world can be implemented here if we choose proper delivery strategies in terms of feasibility, cultural context and availability of required resources. Absence of fully functioning government made our situation worse and need of particular attention. drabdirashid AT gmail.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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HIFA2015 Country Representatives in the Americas

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-Youssef is a medical student from Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria, Egypt. daretobe85 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

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

HIFA2015 Country Representatives in Europe

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

HIFA2015 Country Representatives in South East Asia

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

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

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

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

HIFA2015 Country Representatives in Western Pacific Region

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

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