Minister of Health Tanzania
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Emergency Physician · Minnesota, USA
Dr. Stephen Dunlop is an attending physician at Hennepin County Medical Center, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota, Director of the Fellowship in Global Emergency Medicine with an appointment as an ASTMH certified Global Health Course Co-Director focusing on education in Ultrasound, Trauma and Simulation in resource poor settings. He has years of on the ground experience in East Africa focusing on education, research and systems development of Acute Care systems.
President · Academy of Nursing of SA
Focus: Emergency Skills Refresher Workshop for NursesShe is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, president of the Academy of Nursing of South Africa and a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. As a founding member, Petra remains actively involved in the African Federation for Emergency Medicine. She has worked with research and education of health professionals, primarily nurses, in South Africa and Africa for over 25 years, predominately in the area of acute/emergency care. Petra is the editor-in-chief of the International Emergency Nursing Journal.
Emergency Physician · MOH, Tanzania
A full biography will be added soon.
Anaesthesiologist · Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Dr. Mpoki M. Ulisubisya, MD, MMed, FCTACC(CIMS – Telangana) FCA ECSA, MBA, is an anaesthesiologist and critical care physician with more than 20 years of experience practicing medicine, training doctors and teaching medical students in the United Republic of Tanzania. He served as the Permanent Secretary of Health in the Tanzanian Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly where he oversaw country’s efforts to provide equitable health services that are of a high-quality, accessible, affordable, sustainable and gender-sensitive. Dr. Mpoki served as President of both the Society of Anaesthesiologists of Tanzania and still serves the College of Anaesthesiologists to the East Central and Southern Africa [CANECSA] of the ECSA College of Health Sciences. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences and Hubert Kairuki Memorial University. He earned his undergraduate degree in medicine from the Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences at the University of Dar Es Salaam, where he also completed his postgraduate studies and residency in Anaesthesiology and Critical Care. Additionally, he earned a Masters in Business Administration from Mzumbe University; completed his internship in internal medicine at Mbeya Referral Hospital; and received postgraduate clinical training at the Royal Perth Hospital (Australia) and CARE Institute of Medical Sciences (India). He currently works at the Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute as a Cardiac Intensivist after completion of his tour of duty abroad.
Emergency Physician · Accra Ghana
Dr. Joseph Bonney BSc, MBChB, MPH, MSc DM, MGCPS
Emergency Medicine Specialist at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and Research Fellow with the Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group at the Kumasi Collaborative Centre for Research in Tropical Medicine
Joseph Bonney is an Emergency Medicine Specialist from Ghana. He holds a Master’s in Public Health, specialized in Health Service Planning and Management from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Masters in Disaster Medicine MSc DM from the CRIMEDIM – Center for Research and Training in Disaster Medicine, Humanitarian Aid, and Global Health, University of Eastern Piedmont. Currently, he works as an Emergency Medicine Specialist/Attending at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital’s Emergency Medicine Directorate and heads The Research and Innovations’ Office in the same Directorate.
Dr Bonney is a research fellow with the Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group at the Kumasi Collaborative Centre for Research in Tropical Medicine. He is a member of the African coaLition for Epidemic Research, Response and Training (ALERRT) and the 2020 fellow for the ISARIC Career Development Fellowship Scheme. He serves an editor for the Ghana Medical Journal, African Journal for Emergency Medicine and the Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review. Dr. Bonney has over 20 research publications (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joseph-Bonney). Joe is a fun and focus leader, team player and wonderful photographer.
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CUHAS · Mwanza Tanzania
Jeremiah Seni (MD, MMed, PhD) is an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences (CUHAS) and Bugando Medical Centre (BMC) in Mwanza – Tanzania. He is currently serving as the Director of Postgraduate Studies at CUHAS, and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Surveillance Lead and Co-Lead in the Emergency Preparedness and Response at BMC. His fifteen years of clinical and research experience has been on delineation of transmission dynamics and impact assessment of multi-drug resistant pathogens of public health importance, setting-up hospital-based AMR surveillance and antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) systems, evaluating cost-effective diagnostics, developing evidence-based guidelines on infectious diseases treatment, prevention and control using One-Health approach. He has provided technical expertise tovarious institutions in-country, regionally and globally with the recent one on the WHO Global AMR Research Agenda in the human health sector in June 2023 (https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/global-research-agenda-for-antimicrobial-resistance-in-human-health). He is currently working on the incremental predictive potentials for various inflammatory markers of sepsis among critically ill patients at the emergency and intensive care units. Seni is a member Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery, a member of the Tanzania Multisectoral Coordinating Committee on AMR; member of the National Biosafety and Biosecurity Technical Working Group (TWG), and National Chairperson of the AMS TWG. He has published over 100 technical reports and peer reviewed research articles (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Jeremiah+Seni & https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2420-5329).
Emergency Physician · North Carolina, USA
Focus: Leadership DevelopmentA full biography will be added soon.
Emergency Physician · Blantyre Malawi
Dr Mulinda Nyirenda is a senior specialist in Emergency Medicine and Internal medicine within the Malawian Ministry of Health and holds a senior lecturer post in the school of Medicine at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS). She functions as a vibrant clinical care provider, keen educator and avid researcher in health care. Her work experience covers clinical care, acute care systems development, emergency response systems development, health care worker training, quality improvement, clinical research, medical education, leadership and management. Her key achievements have been establishment of the first modernized adult emergency department in Malawi, pioneered the practice of emergency medicine in the public sector and developed the emergency medicine specialty education programs within undergraduate and postgraduate medical programs in Malawi. She is an international faculty for the certificate in emergency medicine program (CPEM) at Indus Hospital in Pakistan and a mentor on the Global Emergency Medicine Student Leadership Program as an ACEP international section member. Her clinical research portfolio includes multi-national HIV clinical trials, acute care, infectious diseases, medical education, medical Informatics and technology, and health care systems strengthening research.
She is one of the few women physician leaders in Emergency Medicine in Africa chairing the AFEM women in emergency care forum and a board member of African Federation for Emergency Medicine. She is the African Representative on the IFEM board. She is listed as one of the 100 inspiring women 2023 and the woman of substance in medicine 2023 in Malawi. She has been recognized by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) as a William Rutherford Award recipient and the society of academic emergency medicine (SAEM) as a GEMA Global Awardee in the USA.
Pediatric Emergency Physician · Atlanta USA
Focus: Pediatric EmergenciesBrittany Murray, MD, MPhil Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine Director, Global Health and Equity Office Emory University School of Medicine Education • Medical school: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA • Residency: Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, USA • Fellowship: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA • MPhil in Health Professions Education: Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa Dr. Murray is a board-certified emergency medicine and pediatric emergency medicine physician with an academic focus in global health education and improving care for underserved populations. She is an associate professor at Emory University School of Medicine where she is a pediatric emergency medicine physician and the director for the Global Health and Equity Office. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory, she lived and worked full-time in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania where she partnered with local Tanzanian physicians to build sustainable education systems in emergency care and help patients get to those services. Dr. Murray’s academic and research interests focus on strengthening of healthcare systems for emergency care, the education of healthcare providers, and empowering underserved patients both locally and overseas. To achieve these goals, she has worked with several international organizations, including the World Health Organization, Africa CDC, African Federation for Emergency Medicine, American Academy of Pediatrics, and Emergency Medicine Association of Tanzania.
Emergency Medicine Specialist · Zanzibar
Emergency Medicine Specialist graduate from Alexandria University in Egypt in 2024
Currently working at Lumumba Hospital in Zanzibar
University of Minnesota USA
KOPI USA
African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM)
Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society
Foundation for International Cardiac and Community Services
Land Africa
Forever Smiles Foundation
College of Surgeons
Tanzania Unforgettable
Australia Aid
