Uganda
Dr. Jim Arinaitwe, MPH, currently a Manager for the Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa, trained in Human Medicine and Surgery and in Public Health at Makerere University. He further trained in HIV/AIDS leadership and management. He has over thirty years experience in management of infectious diseases and health systems with particular focus HIV, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Tobacco, and reproductive health program management at national and regional level across Africa. His work path resonating at strategy and policy level is grounded by training in Health Systems management and supervising research particularly in HIV including policy translation to action. He has and is involved in participating and coordination of multistakeholder collaborative projects from Africa, Europe, USA, and Canada by virtual of his positional as head of a Pan African Centre in tobacco control. He has participated in UNAIDS, World Bank, USAID, CDC, Global Fund, WHO, NIH, DFID and other bilateral funded projects and research. He has focused on capacity development for program designs and quality improvement. He was Principal Investigator in the Assessment of HIV/STI/Tuberculosis and Drug Abuse among Prisoners in Uganda supported by United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime. He is currently the PI in Uganda for Quit4Life+; Adapting and Evaluating a Phone-Based Tobacco Use Cessation Program for People Living with HIV in Uganda and Zambia study.
Dr. Lynn Atuyambe, MPH, Ph.D., trained at Makerere University in Uganda and Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden is an Associate Professor at the Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH). He has over to 20 years of research experience especially in air pollution and reproductive health. He coordinates qualitative research methods, runs courses in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health as well as Health Promotion, Health Education, Behavior Change Communication for the post graduate and undergraduate programs. He has vast experience in running large collaborative research projects in Europe, USA and Africa. He has participated in several NIH funded projects focusing on air pollution and climate change (GEOHealth Hub), medical education initiatives (MEPI), Social and Behavioral HIV Research Capacity Building in Uganda, and Trauma and Injury Across the Lifespan (TRIAD). He serves on the WHO Global Air Pollution and Health – The Technical Advisory Group (GAPH-TAG) assigned to the Expert Working Group on Health Outcomes / Exposure-Response Functions. He has about 100 publications in peer reviewed journals with a focus on adolescent reproductive health, coping theories among pregnant adolescents, HIV/AIDS, ART access and fairness, Stigma and discrimination and HIV disclosure outcomes and air pollution (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/term=atuyambe+L&sort=date&size=200).
Dr. John Jubilee, MD, is former head physician at Mpigi Health Centre IV in Mawokota County North, Uganda and currently the Medical Director at Holy Family Virika Hospital in Fort Portal Diocese in Western Uganda. Dr. Jubillee has partnered with and trained USC faculty and students in improving rural community medicine for over 10 years.
Nsubuga Allan (They/Them) is a Clinical Psychologist who designs and implements Behavior Change Interventions for key and vulnerable populations serving the LGBTIQ Rights Movement at Sexual Minorities Uganda as the Strategic Initiatives Manager. Allan works on projects that monitor the HIV response in Uganda in over 400 health facilities supported by PEPFAR for key enablers and barriers of HIV/TB services compiled, analyzed and then used by civil society and community groups to generate solutions to problems found in service delivery. They work on a mental health response project for the LGBTIQ community in Uganda overseeing therapy connection in the Ugandan cultural context and applying theories. They are key in Leadership projects for young LGBTIQ activists and coordinate a yearlong leadership academy to build leadership capacity among the LGBTIQ community through mentoring young leaders in the movement.
Allan was a Mandela Washington Fellow, 2021, in the Civic Leadership track at Indiana University Bloomington and now a Professional Development Intern at University of Maryland LGBTQ Equity Center. They are a member of the 8th Young Leaders Forum at Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung advocating for social justice and good governance in Uganda. Allan presented the interests of youth to increasingly voice their rights and access friendly reproductive health services as President of the Youth Advisory Committee and Member of the National Steering Committee at the Uganda Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights Alliance 2017/2018. They are a Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur award winner 2018, and previously a collaborative MTV Staying Alive award winner 2016 who designed an HIV Prevention program for 24 districts in Central Uganda. Allan is pursuing their passion for gender equality and equity to ensure that all people regardless of gender or sex are able to thrive with equal opportunities.
Oceania/New Zealand
Jude McCool, PhD, MPH, is Associate Professor and Head of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Since her appointment in 2009, she has led the postgraduate teaching in global health and established with colleagues, the UoA Global Health Group; a network of academics and practitioners working in global health, with a focus on the Asia Pacific Rim region. Her areas of interest include non-communicable disease prevention with an emphasis on building capacity and strengthening evidence to reduce preventable disease. Her focus most recently has been on understanding the role of digital media as communication tool for social change, this has including implementation research on designing, adapting, and evaluating the impact of mHealth initiatives. Dr. McCool am based in Auckland, New Zealand, but has established long-term partnerships across the Pacific Islands region to work alongside government, non-government and academic in through implementation research, digital health, and capacity development. She is committed to making changes to decolonise global health in my teaching, supervision, and research.
Eastern Europe/Poland
Krzysztof Przewozniak, PhD is a sociologist of medicine and health with 39 years of experience in public health, etiology and epidemiology of man-made diseases, disease prevention, cancer and tobacco control, health promotion, lifestyle and environmental risk factors, social and health research, IT and smart health, and social and media communication and campaigning. Government expert in works on the national and international public health, cancer control and tobacco policy strategies and laws. Senior Researcher and former Deputy Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre at the Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology in Warsaw, Poland. Lecturer of the Warsaw Collegium Civitas. Current President of the Foundation “Smart Health – Health in 3D”, former President of the Nicolai CopernicusSociety and the Civil Society Coalition „Tobacco or Health”, and former Research Director of the Health Promotion Foundation, all based in Poland. Since two cadences, Board member of the European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention. Expert, collaborator or lecturer in the World Health Organization, International Union Against Cancer, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Bank and few European, American and Canadian universities and health institutes or agencies. Project leader, principal investigator, main collaborator or country coordinator in around 160 Polish and international research and intervention projects, including SEARCH, HEM, PONS, GATS, GYTS, EUREST-PLUS and TackSHS. Author or co-author of 320 scientific and educational publications, including 56 books and book chapters and 142 papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Awarded Gold Cross of Merit by President of the Republic of Poland and other awards by Ministry of Health in Poland, Polish Academy of Sciences, UICC Globalink Network, US CDC Foundation, and the European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention.