Dr. Hellen C. Muttai is Kenya’s Co-Site Principal Investigator for the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Program. Dr. Muttai joined CHAMPS after over 15 years of distinguished service in public health, disease surveillance, and implementation science. She previously served as a Medical Epidemiologist at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) […]
Lamaran Dattijo is an Obstetrician with more than two decades of progressive experience in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) within the Nigerian healthcare system. His expertise extends across the spectrum of Maternal, Reproductive, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH). Dr. Dattijo has been actively involved in clinical care, research, training, policy formulation, and advocacy in […]
Professor Martin Meremikwu is a tenured Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health at the College of Medical Sciences University of Calabar in Cross River State, Nigeria, where he also leads the clinical trials and evidence-based healthcare program of the Calabar Institute of Tropical Diseases Research and Prevention. He obtained an MBBCH at the University of […]
Dr Abdul Momin Kazi is the site director and co-PI on the CHAMPS Pakistan site. Dr Momin is an assistant professor at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. He is a PhD candidate with the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, […]
Dr. Omer has conducted studies in the United States, Guatemala, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Africa, and Australia. Dr. Omer’s research portfolio includes epidemiology of respiratory viruses such as influenza, RSV, and – more recently – COVID-19; clinical trials to estimate the efficacy of maternal and/or infant influenza, pertussis, polio, measles, and pneumococcal […]
Dr. Muhammad Faruk Bashir is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Bauchi, Nigeria and a Chief Consultant in Pediatric Endocrinology at the affiliated teaching hospital, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) Bauchi. With over a decade of teaching, practicing and research in Pediatrics, he has 37 peer-reviewed journal article […]
Ziyaad Dangor is the Co-Director of CHAMPS South Africa and a pediatric pulmonologist at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto. As a researcher, Ziyaad completed his doctoral thesis on Group B Streptococcal disease’s clinical and immunological epidemiology at the Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit. In addition, his research interests include childhood TB, sequelae […]
Dr. Shabir Madhi is a Professor of Vaccinology and Director of the Medical Research Council Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa. He holds the position of Research Chair supported by Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation in Vaccine Preventable Diseases and co-Director of the African […]
Dr. Ike Ogbuanu is a medical doctor and epidemiologist with more than 25 years of progressive experience in clinical medicine, academic research, global public health, vaccinology, leadership, and management. In addition to peer-reviewed publications in HIV/AIDS, infectious disease epidemiology, vaccine-preventable diseases, and genetic epidemiology, he has substantial clinical and programmatic experience in the control of […]
Dr. Amara Jambai (MD, MSc, DLSHTM) is a distinguished public health leader and former senior government official with decades of service to Sierra Leone’s health sector. He previously served as Chairman of NACOVERC (2021-2023), Deputy Minister of Health (2019-2020), Chief Medical Officer (2018-2019), and Director of Disease Prevention and Control. From 2002 to 2008, he […]