AFRI PAED WORKING GROUP MEMBERS

The African Infant and Preschool Lung Function Working Group members are detailed below.

Name Profession Organisation/ institution linked to Email Address
Diane Gray
Paediatric pulmonologist, researcher
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Marieke Van der Zalm
Pediatrician, researcher
Desmond Tutu TB centre, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Charl Verwey
Paediatric pulmonologist, researcher
Department of Paediatrics, University of the Witwatersrand; Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa
Prakash Mohan Jeena
Paediatric Pulmonologist – reseacher
University of Kwazulu Natal, Durban, South Africa
Refiloe Masekela
Paediatric pulmonologist
University of Kwazulu Natal, Durban, South Africa
Leah Githinji
Paediatrician pulmonologist, researcher
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Taryn Gray
Paediatric pulmonologist
Chest and Allergy centre, Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
Fiona Kritzinger
Paediatric pulmonologist
Chest and Allergy centre, Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
Lisa Obimbo
Paediatric Pulmonologist, researcher
Department of Paediatrics & Child Health, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Olena Ivanova
MD, MPH, researcher
Div. of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, KUM, Munich, Germany * affiliated to TB sequel in The Gambia, Mozambique, South Africa and Tanzania
Andrea Rachow
MD, Specialist Inf Diseases and Tropical Medicine, senior researcher
Div. of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, KUM, Munich, Germany * affiliated to TB sequel in The Gambia, Mozambique, South Africa and Tanzania
Rebecca Nantanda
General Paediatrician, Researcher
Makerere University Lung Institute, Makerere College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
Shaakira Chaya
Paediatric Pulmonologist
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Carvern Jacobs
Respiratory Technologist, Researcher
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Kareshma Asharam
Research Manager
University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa
Sheena Muttoo
PhD student
University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa
Ziyaad Dangor
Paediatric pulmonologist, researcher
Department of Paediatrics, University of the Witwatersrand; Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa
Rana Ahmed
Health informatics/ statistics
The Epidemiological Laboratory, Khartoum, Sudan
Engi F. Attia
Adult Pulmonologist and Intensivist, Researcher
University of Nairobi, Coptic Hospital / Hope Center for Infectious Diseases in Nairobi, Kenya
Rajen Naidoo
Occupational health physician
University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa
Eric D. McCollum
Paediatric pulmonologist
Eudowood Division of Pediatric Respiratory Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, *affiliated with Lesotho, Malawi, Bangladesh and South Africa
Mohanad Lawgali
Paediatric pulmonologist
University of Benghazi, paediatrics department.
Esin Nkereuwem
Paediatrician, researcher
MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM, Banjul, The Gambia
Ruan Swanenpoel
Respiratory Technologist, Researcher
Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
Toyin Togun
MD MPH PhD; researcher with professional interest in childhood TB
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and with affiliation to the MRC Unit The Gambia at the LSHTM (MRCG at LSHTM)
Celso Khosa
MD, PhD, Researcher
Centro de Investigação e Treino em Saúde da Polana Caniço – Instituto Nacional de Saúde – Mozambique
Elisa Lopez Varela
Pediatrician, Researcher
ISGlobal- Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Spain
Denise Banze
MD, Researcher
Centro de Investigação e Treino em Saúde da Polana Caniço- Instituto Nacionaal de Saúde- Mozambique
Justina Bramugy
MD, Researcher
Centro de Investigação em saúde de Manhiça, Mozambique
Sandra Kwarteng Owusu
Paediatric Pulmonologist
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Ghana
Joan Kagema
Respiratory Nurse
Kenyatta National Teaching /Referral Hospital, Kenya

International Experts

Name Profession Country
DR SHANNON SIMPSON
Co-head of the Children’s Lung Health team at the Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Australia
Australia
KATHRYN RAMSEY, PHD
Research Fellow, Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, University Children’s Hospital Bern, Switzerland
Switzerland