Dr Nirmal Choradia
Dr Camila Coelho
Dr Coelho is a postdoctoral researcher at NIAID/NIH, working mainly with antibody repertoire analysis through BCR sequencing and IgG proteomics in samples from transmission blocking vaccination for malaria. She underwent her first postdoctoral training at the biology department of Georgetown University, researching immune responses to Giardia duodenalis. During her PhD she worked with proteomics and characterization of zoonotic strain of Giardia and during her master’s degree programme, she studied neuroendocrine alterations during sepsis. She was also dean of the biomedicine bachelor’s degree programme at Faminas University in Brazil, as well as an assistant professor of parasitology. She was previously a board member of the Brazilian Association of Teaching in Biomedicine. She is a member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) and the Brazilian Society of Protozoology.
Dr Joe Forrester
Dr Joe Forrester is a general surgeon and trauma & critical care fellow at Stanford University. He received his BA in Biochemistry at the Colorado College, his MD from the University of Virginia, and his MSc in Infectious Disease from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. From 2013 – 2015 he served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition to working in northwestern Uganda on plague prevention, he deployed to Liberia to work as a field officer during the Ebola outbreak. He has published over 50 peer reviewed manuscripts and book chapters. His academic interests include research mentorship, trauma surgery, surgical infectious disease, healthcare provision in conflict settings, and infectious disease outbreak prevention. In his free time he enjoys spending rock climbing, hiking, and adventuring with his friends and family.
Dr Mohamad Hussain
Dr Ursula Kalimembe Kafulafula
Dr Tom Latham
Dr Tom Latham is a consultant hematologist NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, UK and honorary senior lecturer, University of Bristol. After undergraduate degrees in medicine and immunology at the university of Edinburgh and postgraduate training in haematology, Dr Latham completed a PhD in transgenic models of DNA methylation before working as a lecturer in haematology at the Malawi College of Medicine. Since returning to the UK, his interests have been transfusion medicine and haemaglobinopathies.
Dr Isaac Liu
Prof. Elsayed Z. Soliman
Prof. William Stones
Dr Anna Stout
Dr Oladapo Yeku
Professor Ademola Ajuwon
Dr Allison Daniel
Dr. Allison Daniel is a Ph.D. Candidate in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto and Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. She completed a BSc in International Nutrition at the University of British Columbia and an MSc in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto. Since 2015, her research has focused on children with severe acute malnutrition requiring inpatient admission. More specifically, she is interested in the relationships between maternal factors and care practices and child outcomes including development and nutritional status in severely malnourished children. She is the study lead of a cluster-randomized controlled trial at the Moyo Nutritional Rehabilitation and Research Unit evaluating an interactive counselling intervention known as the Kusamala Program.
Dr. Leslie B. Glickman
Dr. Leslie B. Glickman, PT, Ph.D., is a retired former full-time faculty from the University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science. Currently, she is the Executive Advisor to the Chair of the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, Executive Editor of Rehab Essentials, Inc, Associate Editor and manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Physical Therapy Education, and a manuscript reviewer for the Malawi Medical Journal. In the recent past, she has provided advisory services to graduate students from the University of Montana, University of the Western Cape (South Africa), and undergraduate students in the Physiotherapy Programme at the College of Medicine, University of Malawi, The Virginia Polytechnic University in the US, and Mzuzu University in Malawi.
Her rehabilitation research focus has been in less-resourced communities regionally and internationally, related to reintegration into the community post-stroke and other neurological conditions. She conducted funded research in Malawi (2014 & 2015) through the University of Maryland, Centers for Global Education Initiatives and for Interprofessional Education. In 2016 and 2018, she provided educational and programmatic consultation as well as faculty and staff development for the Kachere Rehabilitation Centre and the Medical Rehabilitation College in Malawi on a Fulbright Program Specialist Grant.
On the local level, she actively participates in community social, philanthropic, and educational activities, making connections between her global and local experiences.
Dr Michael Iroezindu
Dr Linda Kalilani