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Appendix A: Committee Member, Consultant, and Staff Biographies
Pages 251-266

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From page 251...
... National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Child Health and Development -- as well as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, U.S.
From page 252...
... . His research is also funded by the Wellcome Trust; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the European Commission; the German Federal Ministry of Science and Education; World Health Organization; World Bank; Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; UNITAID; United States Agency for International Development; ANRS (French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis)
From page 253...
... Carla Castillo-Laborde, M.Sc., M.A., is an assistant professor at the Centro de Epidemiología y Políticas de Salud, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, at the Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago. Previously, she was a researcher at the Department of Health Economics of the Ministry of Health, Chile, from 2005 to 2012, participating in various studies related to the establishment of health reform, among others associated with areas of health economics, such as financing of health systems and economic evaluations.
From page 254...
... He is the founding president for the Zambia Heart and Stroke Foundation, and an active member of the African Heart Network and World Heart Federation. The CPCR is the secretariat for the Zambia Tobacco Control Campaign, a community advocacy group, and the International Tobacco Control Evaluation Project.
From page 255...
... Her major research interests are in the fields of neurology and infectious diseases, with considerable experience in the field of HIV/AIDS and neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly cerebral palsy, autism, and epilepsy. Her doctoral study was on cerebral palsy, which she defended in May 2016 as a joint degree from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and Makerere University, Uganda.
From page 256...
... Luyirika worked as a facilitator in the Rural Health Initiative of the South African Academy of Family Practice, where he trained multidisciplinary teams to care for HIV patients and to develop home care strategies and kits as well as community HIV prevention strategies. Returning to Uganda in 2002, Dr.
From page 257...
... Dr. Moshabela is also adjunct faculty and a Wellcome Trust research fellow at the Africa Health Research Institute, South Africa, where he collaborates with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and conducts research in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
From page 258...
... He also served as an advisor to the World Bank's higher education programs, and as chairman of the Netherlands Commission on Global Health Research, as well as the Royal Tropical Institute's Board on Health. In the past 40 years, he has been a global leader in several highly successful infectious disease programs, in the introduction of joint sectorwide health reform programs in Asia and Africa, and in reform of health and medical education worldwide.
From page 259...
... Sloan was also an honorary lecturer at the University of Malawi College of Medicine, and edited The Clinical Book, a practical pocket textbook of local management protocols for common adult medical conditions that still acts as a standard guide for medical students, clinical officers, and doctors across the country. In 2015, he spent 3 months in Sierra Leone working as clinical lead on the UK-Med Quality Monitoring Team, supporting the NHS contribution to the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa.
From page 260...
... and of the African Union Ministers of Health in 2005 to 2006, Dr. Tlou provided leadership in the adoption of the SADC Malaria Eradication Program, the SADC HIV/AIDS Plan of Action, and the Maputo Plan of Action on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.
From page 261...
... Dr. Shah completed a certificate in emerging infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Iowa.
From page 262...
... As an assistant professor of neurology and director of adult global neurology initiatives within the Michigan State University Department of Neurology's International Neurologic and Psychiatric Epidemiology Program, Dr. Kvalsund spends 9 months annually in Lusaka, Zambia, where she is a principal investigator for the "Research on Assessments of Vitamin B12 and Evaluation of Neuropathy Study." In detailing preventable nutritional and toxico-nutritional neurologic morbidity in resource-limiting settings, her research has important potential public health and health policy implications relating to food production and storage, nutritional supplementation, and national and HIV formulary guidelines in resource-limited settings.
From page 263...
... Army and previous assignments included serving as the chief of the Global Emerging Infections Department at the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences in Bangkok, Thailand, where she developed surveillance programs for infectious diseases in Asia; the chief of the Field Studies Department at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research where she played a pivotal role in developing the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics, the U.S. Department of Defense real-time surveillance system; as well as two tours in South Korea.
From page 264...
... She has conducted research and evaluation activities for the Futures Group, Inc., and Educational Services, Inc. Simon Hiltebeitel, M.A., has experience creating and supporting monitoring plans and systems for HIV/AIDS, maternal and newborn health, injection safety, gender, nutrition, community health, febrile illness, tuberculosis, vulnerable children, and family planning projects in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
From page 265...
... At EnCompass, Ms. Bhopal plays a key role in supporting the United States Agency for International Development's Latin America and the Caribbean/Cuba Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Services project and various strategic initiatives for the chief executive officer.
From page 266...
... 266 EVALUATION OF PEPFAR'S CONTRIBUTION TO RWANDA donor-supported project evaluations in Rwanda, including efforts for the World Bank; United States Agency for International Development; UK Department for International Development; European Union; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; United Nations Children's Fund; EKN (the Swedish Export Credit Agency) ; and Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Development (formerly known as CIDA)


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