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Appendix E: Speaker Biographies
Appendix E: Speaker Biographies
Pages 95-108
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She recognizes that involvement as having been and still being a source of enriching experiences. Florence Baingana, M.D., is a psychiatrist who has been working as a Research Fellow with the Makerere University School of Public Health since 2007.
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Roy Baskind, M.D., FRCPC, is a neurologist practicing in Toronto, Canada. Originally from South Africa, he completed medical school at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and went on to complete postgraduate training in neurology at the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University.
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Dr. Farmer is the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he is also vice chair, and the founding director of Partners In Health, an international nonprofit organization that provides direct healthcare services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty.
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Dr. Farmer is the recipient of the Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, the Salk Institute Medal for Health and Humanity, the Duke University Humanitarian Award, the Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association, the American Medical Association's Outstanding International Physician (Nathan Davis)
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She is a member of the South African HIV Clinicians Society and an alumnus of the African International Brain Research Organization-funded schools. She was a recipient of the International Scholarship Award from the American Epilepsy Society in 2005, which she undertook at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School under the supervision of Professor Frances Jensen.
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Yvonne Kayiteshonga is a coordinator at the Mental Health Department at the Ministry of Health in Rwanda. Her duties include defining strategies and plans of action in mental health policies and ensuring their application; advising the minister of health in the coordination and support of international exchanges in the mental health domain; and serving as a focal point for non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
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He is a recipient of various research and training grants, including a European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials partnership fellowship grant in 2005, an NIH Fogarty International training grant, and a Swedish International Development Agency and American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene networking and training grants. As an epidemiologist at the Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care and quality control manager at Uganda Malaria Surveillance Project, Makerere University, he coordinated projects funded by the U.S.
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at the Aga Khan University of East Africa. He also serves as president, Tanzania Epilepsy Association; chair, National Polio Expert Committee at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare; member, Technical Committee of Cysticercosis Working Group in East and Southern Africa; and member, National Institute for Medical Research Taskforce on Cysticercosis, Tanzania.
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She was a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco. She formerly oversaw health and social policy issues for Senator Joseph Lieberman and was the senior health policy adviser for the Lieberman for President Campaign.
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He is editor of The Africa Text Book of Psychiatry and Mental Health, bringing together 69 contributors from all of Africa, including South Africa. He has finished editing three other books and is in the process of editing another for top-range mental health practice and research in Africa.
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She has also attended short courses in mental health and child illnesses in various countries in Africa and Europe. Charles Newton, M.D., was born in Kenya and qualified in Cape Town, South Africa, with postgraduate training in Pediatrics in Manchester and London, United Kingdom.
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On the international scene, Professor Njamnshi is president of the Pan African Association of Neurological Sciences, regional director for Africa of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN) , and chair of the Africa Committee of the WFN.
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on the integration of mental health into primary health care from the University of Cape Town. She previously served as convenor of the national mental health policy commission of the African National Congress in the build-up to the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994.
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He serves as an adviser to the NIH, WHO, the World Bank, the National Security Council, the Department of State, the International Clinical Epidemiology Network, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Societies of the United States and the United Kingdom.
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