Esther Mwaikambo

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Esther Daniel Mwaikambo (born 1940) is a Tanzanian medical doctor. She is a senior paedriatician and Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at the Hubert Kairuki Memorial University. [1]

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Life

Mwaikambo graduated MD from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in 1969. As Tanzania's first female doctor, the Swahili newspaper Uhuru profiled her in a series 'women of today's Tanzania'. [2] She gained a Master of Medicine (Paediatrics) from the University of Dar es Salaam in 1977. In 1982 she gained a Diploma in childhood infectious dieases and immunology from the Institute of Child Health in London, and in 1995 she gained a Certificate in Behavioural Sciences from Harvard University. [1]

In 1987 Mwaikambo founded the medical women association of Tanzania, using the association to drive Tanzania's breast cancer program. [3]

From 2001 to 2012 Mwaikambo served as chair of the Board of Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA). [4] In October 2009 she was Harvard Distinguished Africa Lecturer, lecturing on the challenges of establishing a medical university in Tanzania. [5] As President of the Tanzania Academy of Science, Mwaikambo called for Tanzanian media to promote local scientific innovations. [6]

In 2018 Esther Mwaikambo was elected as an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [7] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Professor Esther Mwaikambo, Maternity Africa, October 7, 2016. Accessed March 19, 2016.
  2. T. N. Mshuza, Uhuru, February 13, 1971. Cited in Andrew Ivaska (2011). Cultured States: Youth, Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar Es Salaam. Duke University Press. pp. 114, 237. ISBN   978-0-8223-4770-5.
  3. 1 2 De Esther D. Mwaikambo, American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
  4. Donald Mmari and Samuel Wangwe, eds., Research and Policy Nexus: Perspectives from Twenty Years of Policy Research in Tanzania, 2017.
  5. Jon Chase, Wanted: Doctors for Africa, The Harvard Gazette, October 28, 2009. Accessed March 19, 2020.
  6. Media challenged to promote local scientific innovations, IPP Media, September 1, 2018.
  7. Middlebury President Laurie Patton Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Middlebury College News and Events, April 18, 2018. Accessed March 19, 2020.