Department of Clinical Nursing, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Professor Mselle is a registered nurse-midwife and a Senior Lecture in the Department of Clinical Nursing. She has a PhD in Clinical Nursing majoring in Maternal and Child Health. She was trained as a nurse-midwife and nurse educator and has background in medical sociology and health promotion. Professor Mselle has been teaching in various middle level nursing and midwifery training institutions in the country for over 18 years.
She served in various administrative posts at the University including Head of the Department of Clinical Nursing, Assistant Director of nursing and midwifery services in the University Hospital and she serves as the Chair of Tanzania Nursing and Midwifery Council. She teaches different nursing and midwifery courses and supervises research projects to undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students. She is also responsible for quality assurance regarding teaching, research and consultancy in the Department. She provides technical support to the Ministry of Health in matters related to nursing and midwifery-training especially in development and review of nursing training materials, regulation, services and welfare. She also served as a Global Technical Nursing Advisory member for 3 years.
Professor Mselle research interest is in the areas of maternal and child health, women’s health, clinical nursing, reproductive and health promotion. She served as a co-PI in various National and International funded research projects including Access and Quality of Birth care, the problem of obstetric fistula and its implications (2008-2012), Task Sharing for Caesarean Section Deliveries in Tanzania (2015-2017), Postpartum Care (2015-2017), Humanizing Birth Care (2014-16), Transforming Health Professions Education in Tanzania (THET) (2018-2023) and Essential Coaching for Every Mother (2018-2023) and Action Leveraging Evidence to Reduce perinatal mortality and morbidity in Sub-Saharan Africa-ALERT (2020-2025). Her research works emanated into 47 published articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Prof Siika, Abraham Mosigisi, MBChB, MMed, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya
Prof Siika have over 15 years of research experience, mainly in conducting randomized clinical trials, and 11 productive and successful years working in collaboration with MHRP. His research interest lies in improving antiretroviral treatment (ART) outcomes in our African HIV-infected population.
An AMPATH investigator, Prof Siika is currently leading Moi University’s Clinical Research Center (MUCRC), funded by NIH, CDC, EDCTP and UK MRC, among others.
With a grant from Indiana and Brown Medical Schools, he conducted bronchoscopies on HIV-infected patients who had clinical signs of PCP and negative sputum smears for tuberculosis (TB). The collected specimens were subjected to an array of microbiological, immunological and histopathological tests, through which he was able to demonstrate the existence of PCP in patients. This result was part of the evidence-base utilized by the National HIV care and treatment programme to introduction co-trimoxazole prophylaxis as standard of care in treatment of HIV-infected patients in Kenya.
After completion of residency, he proceeded to Indiana University where he undertook fellowship training in Medical Informatics and upon return to Moi University, he supported the implementation of an electronic medical record system (EMR) at the HIV care and treatment program, AMPATH, supported by collaborators from the Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, IN.
The AMPATH Medical Record System, the precursor of OpenMRS has been instrumental in improving patient care and has supported numerous research activities, culminating in the publication of several hundreds of peer reviewed papers.
In 2013, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), through the Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development (NORHED) granted Moi University a grant to provide postgraduate level training (Masters and PhD) in health informatics. This program will anchor on the AMRS for training and research, further increasing generation of new scientific knowledge.
Prof Runjan Chetty, MBBCh, FRCPC, FRCPA, FRCPath, DPhil (Oxon)
Prof Runjan Chetty is an anatomical pathologist with sub-speciality interests in GI/pancreas, molecular and digital pathology. He is the previous chair of pathology: Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa; University of Glasgow and Head of Translational and Cellular Pathology, University of Oxford; Program Medical Director/Pathologist in Chief, University Health Network /University of Toronto.
Prof Chetty is currently the Chief Medical Officer, Diagnexia, Ireland and Emeritus Professor University of Toronto and University of Cape Town. His area of interest in his specialty is mechanisms of tumourigenesis.
Dr Christian Bottomley, PhD
Dr Christian Bottomley is the Associate Professor, Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He holds a PhD in Mathematical Biology from the University College London; MRes Modelling Biological Complexity, University College London; MA Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from the University of Oxford.
Dr Bottomley has previously worked at the University College London and California Department of Health Services. At the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he currently works, he started off as a Research Fellow and rose up the ranks to Associate Professor.
Dr Bottomley has years of experience teaching and supervising PhD students. He also served as Deputy Exam Board Chair in Distance Learning courses. He is also Associate Editor, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A) and Tropical Medicine and International Health. He has authored and co-authored over 100 publications.
He is co-investigator in a number of research projects including the impact of microbial and inflammatory exposures on birth outcomes in rural Zimbabwe, funded by the Medical Research Council UK for £1.2m; The effect of fractional doses of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) on immunogenicity and vaccine-serotype carriage in Kenyan infants, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for £1.6m; Pre-delivery administration of azithromycin to prevent neonatal sepsis and death: a phase III double-blind randomized clinical trial, funded by the Medical Research Council UK for £2.2m.
Dr Bottomley is also a member of various committees including various data safety and monitoring committees and trial steering committees. He has vast experience on research in low-and middle-income countries.
