The University of Zambia (UNZA) is a public university located in Lusaka,Zambia. It is Zambia's largest and oldest learning institution. The university was established in 1965 and officially opened to the public on 12 July 1966. The language of instruction is English.
Arthur Michael Kleinman is an American psychiatrist,social anthropologist and a professor of medical anthropology,psychiatry and global health and social medicine at Harvard University.
Sir Michael Gideon Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London. He is currently the Director of The UCL Institute of Health Equity. Marmot has led research groups on health inequalities for over thirty years,working for various international and governmental bodies. In 2023,he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Harvey Vernon Fineberg is an American physician. A noted researcher in the fields of health policy and medical decision making,his past research has focused on the process of policy development and implementation,assessment of medical technology,evaluation and use of vaccines,and dissemination of medical innovations. Fineberg has held several prominent positions over the course of his career,including Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health,Provost of Harvard University,and President of the Institute of Medicine,now the National Academy of Medicine.
Louis Tompkins Wright,MD,FACS was an American surgeon and civil rights activist. In his position at Harlem Hospital he was the first African-American on the surgical staff of a non-segregated hospital in New York City. He was influential for his medical research as well as his efforts pushing for racial equality in medicine and involvement with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),which he served as chairman for nearly two decades.
Myron Elmer "Max" Essex is the Mary Woodard Lasker Professor of Health Sciences,emeritus in the department of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard University,chair of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health AIDS Initiative (HAI) in the department of immunology and infectious diseases,and chair of the Botswana–Harvard AIDS Institute in Gaborone,Botswana. Essex was one of the first to link animal and human retroviruses to immunosuppressive disease,to suspect that a retrovirus was the cause of AIDS,and to determine that HIV could be transmitted through blood and blood products to hemophiliacs and recipients of blood transfusions. With collaborators,Essex also provided the first evidence that HIV could be transmitted by heterosexual intercourse.
The Zambia Electronic Perinatal Record System (ZEPRS) is an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system used by public obstetric clinics and a hospital in Lusaka,Zambia.
Emmanuel Kasonde was a Zambian economist and politician who served as the Finance permanent secretary or Minister of Finance under three successive Zambian presidential administrations,including Kenneth Kaunda,Frederick Chiluba and Levy Mwanawasa.
Pride Chigwedere,a Zimbabwean national,is a Harvard trained physician-scientist working in global health. He is most notable for leading a team of Harvard researchers who demonstrated that South African President Thabo Mbeki's AIDS policies led to more than 300 000 deaths. While South Africa's policies were condemned by many,Chigwedere's contribution was in developing and applying methods to quantify the impact of the policies thus demonstrating the calamitous consequences of AIDS denialism. Generalized,he developed an approach for evaluating public health practice and highlighted the need to develop a framework for accountability in public health. Drawing from the analogy with medicine,he has proposed the concept of public health malpractice to capture negligence that causes harm as a useful first step towards accountability in public health. A response to Chigwedere's work by AIDS denialists led by Peter Duesberg was initially published by the non-peer-reviewed journal Medical Hypotheses followed by a retraction because of poor quality of data,undeclared conflicts of interest,and potential effects on global health.
Graham Andrew Colditz MD,DrPH is an Australian chronic disease epidemiologist. He is the inaugural Niess-Gain Professor at Washington University School of Medicine,where he is associate director for Prevention and Control at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center. He directs the Master of Population Health Science at Washington University School of Medicine. During medical training he was excited by the potential for prevention of chronic diseases. With encouragement from mentors he pursued training in the US as it was routine for academics in Australia to obtain overseas training at that time. He is internationally recognized for leadership in cancer prevention,and is often interviewed by media for input on this topic. With members of Cancer Prevention and Control at Siteman,he blogs on issues relating to cancer prevention and screening. According to Google Scholar statistics,Colditz has a h-index of more than 300.
ZAMBART Project is a public health research non-governmental organization conducting scientific research into the dual epidemics of tuberculosis and HIV. The organization is based in Lusaka,Zambia at the University of Zambia's School of Medicine Ridgeway Campus. ZAMBART has over 200 employees and works in 16 study sites throughout the country.
Sir Alimuddin Zumla,,FRCP,FRCPath,FRSB is a British-Zambian professor of infectious diseases and international health at University College London Medical School. He specialises in infectious and tropical diseases,clinical immunology,and internal medicine,with a special interest in HIV/AIDS,respiratory infections,and diseases of poverty. He is known for his leadership of infectious/tropical diseases research and capacity development activities. He was awarded a Knighthood in the 2017 Queens Birthday Honours list for services to public health and protection from infectious disease. In 2012,he was awarded Zambia's highest civilian honour,the Order of the Grand Commander of Distinguished services - First Division. In 2023,for the sixth consecutive year,Zumla was recognised by Clarivate Analytics,Web of Science as one of the world's top 1% most cited researchers. In 2021 Sir Zumla was elected as Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences.
Agnes Binagwaho is a Rwandan Politian,pediatrician and co-founder and the former vice chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity (2017-2022). In 1996,she returned to Rwanda where she provided clinical care in the public sector as well as held many positions including the position of Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Health of Rwanda from October 2008 until May 2011 and Minister of Health from May 2011 until July 2016. She has been a professor of global health delivery practice since 2016 and a professor of pediatrics since 2017 at the University of Global Health Equity. She resides in Kigali.
Salim S. Abdool Karim,MBChB,MMed,MS(Epi),FFPHM,FFPath (Virol),DipData,PhD,DSc(hc),FRS is a South African public health physician,epidemiologist and virologist who has played a leading role in the AIDS and COVID-19 pandemic. His scientific contributions have impacted the landscape of HIV prevention and treatment,saving thousands of lives.
Barry R. Bloom is Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Department of Global Health and Population in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston,where he served as dean of the faculty from 1998 through December 31,2008.
Badri Nath Tandon was an Indian gastroenterologist,hepatologist,medical researcher and academic,and the Chairman and Senior Consultant of Gastroenterology,at Metro Hospitals and Heart Institute,Noida. He is a former Professor and Head of Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition Unit at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences,Delhi (AIIMS) and a former Director and Senior Consultant of Hepatology and Gastroenterology at Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute for Liver,Renal and Digestive Diseases,New Delhi. He is a recipient of several awards including Sasakawa WHO Health Prize and Jubilee Medal of the RAMS. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan,in 1986,for his contributions to medicine.
Lusaka Apex Medical University is a private university in Zambia. It was established in 2008 and has continued to provide the most modern way of learning medicine in the country.
Linda Kasonde is a Zambian legal practitioner. She is widely recognized for her significant contributions to the legal field,as well as her unwavering commitment to the advancement of human rights. Kasonde's notable accomplishments include her role as the Founder and Executive Director of the esteemed Chapter One Foundation,an organization dedicated to promoting and protecting civil liberties. Moreover,she is the esteemed proprietor of LCK Chambers. Kasonde gained widespread recognition and acclaim when she made history as the first female President of the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ),solidifying her influential position within the legal community.
A. Eugene Washington is an American physician,clinical investigator,and administrator. He served as the chancellor for health affairs at Duke University,as well as and the president and chief executive officer of the Duke University Health System,from 2015 to 2023. His research considers gynaecology,health disparities and public health policy. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1997 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.
Aaron Dzimbanhete Mujajati,is a Zambian physician,author and entrepreneur. Mujajati holds a Masters of Business Administration in Healthcare Management from the University of Lusaka and a Masters of Medicine in Internal Medicine from the University of Zambia.
