Day 1
Prof Anna Glasier
Anna Glasier trained in obstetrics and gynaecology in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was a clinical scientist in the MRC Unit of Reproductive Biology then Director of Family Planning & Well Woman Services for Lothian from 1990 until 2010.
She is an honorary professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Edinburgh and although retired from clinical practice is still active in research. Her research has been in reproductive health, particularly in contraceptive development and the delivery of contraceptive services. She is a world expert on emergency contraception. She was on the Board of Trustees and International Committee for Contraceptive Research at the Population Council for over ten years. With the Human Reproduction Programme of the World Health Organisation she served on the scientific advisory committee and the research proposal review panel. Professor Glasier considers her most significant achievement to be getting regulatory approval for two emergency contraceptives a progestogen only pill over the counter in the UK (the latter also in the USA). In 2023 Professor Glasier was appointed by the Scottish Government Women’s Health Champion for Scotland. She continues in this post, for now. |
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Prof Angela Dramowski
Professor Angela Dramowski is a Paediatric Infectious Diseases sub-specialist and Head of Clinical Unit: General Paediatrics at Stellenbosch University-Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Her research is focussed on the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of neonatal bacterial and antibiotic-resistant infections. She is passionate about patient safety and data-driven improvements in the quality of hospital care for neonates and children.
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Dr Larisse Bolton
Dr Larisse Bolton holds a BSc degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Applied Mathematics. She is currently a Researcher at the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA) at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Through her research, she aims to be of value, developing evidence-based solutions to address vital public health challenges and to foster future research leaders. She is committed to enhancing public health outcomes through computational science, being involved in several projects including blood systems analysis, childhood cancer and neonatal sepsis, all with the vision to strengthen health systems in low-resource settings.
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Prof Bosede Bukola AfolabiBosede Bukola Afolabi is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the College of Medicine, University of Lagos. She is a maternal medicine expert, has a D.M. from the University of Nottingham, UK. and is internationally recognized for her research and clinical care in sickle-cell and anaemia in pregnancy. She is a fellow of the Academy of Medicine Specialties of Nigeria and of the Nigerian Academy of Medicine and lead investigator of several research projects with grants from TETFund, NIH, USA and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, amongst others.
Bosede is the Director of the Centre for Clinical Trials and Implementation Science (CCTRIS) in the University of Lagos, is currently supervising 7 PhD students and has mentored and supervised 24 senior residents and junior academics in various research projects for their fellowship dissertations. She has authored over 115 publications, including systematic reviews and randomised clinical trials and is on the editorial board of several journals including Reproductive Health and Journal of the West African College of Surgeons. Her more recent accolades and awards include Speaker at the Gates Foundation Goalkeeper event during the 2023 UN General Assembly; Excellence in research award by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Nigeria (SOGON) November 2022; Ojo Memorial Lecturer at the 56th Annual Scientific Conference of SOGON, November 2022; Special Recognition Award 2021, by the Physician of the Year Awards committee, Nigeria. She is the President of the Association of Fetomaternal Medicine Specialists of Nigeria, and is on the Board of several companies - she chairs the Boards of Kessington Adebukunola Adebutu Foundation (KAAF) Laboratory and Maternity Centre and the Maternal and Reproductive Health Research Collective (www.mrhrcollective.org), a non-profit dedicated to reducing maternal mortality in Nigeria. |
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Dr Opeyemi AkinajoDr. Opeyemi Akinajo is an experienced Obstetrician and Gynaecologist working at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. She specializes in Maternal and Fetal Medicine and is skilled in Gynaecological and Obstetrics surgeries, with a particular interest in minimal access surgery and ultrasonography. She holds a first medical degree (MB.Ch. B) from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. She is also a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons and the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria. She is presently a PhD student at the Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden with affiliation with the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (ITM). Her research focuses on understanding implementation factors influencing the use of intravenous iron for the treatment of iron deficiency anaemia in pregnancy in Nigeria.
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Zeina JamaluddineZeina Jamaluddine is a nutritionist and epidemiologist, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research is dedicated to improving the health of women and children, with a particular focus on those affected by conflict in the Middle East and North Africa region. She is interested in validating tools that reflect insecurities, quantifying health and nutrition inequalities, and evaluating the impact of various assistance interventions.
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Dr Pippa LetchworthPippa Letchworth is a Consultant in Obstetrics & Gynaecology at Imperial College NHS Trust appointed in 2017. She has a special interest in Global Maternal Health, Education and Simulation. She has worked extensively internationally for the charity Medicines Sans Frontieres in DRC, Pakistan, Sierra Leone and northern Nigeria. More recently she is the obstetrics and gynaecology lead for the David Nott foundation.
During her training she completed a fellowship in education, global maternal health and obstetric fistula. Producing educational videos for available on line with an international reach of over 10 million views. Prior to her substantive post she worked in the north of Nigeria with MSF, in an area with the worst maternal mortality in the world. Pippa has worked with the David Nott foundation since 2012 delivering the STAE course and more recently the HEST course (hostile environment surgical training) in Kenya, Yemen, UK, Borneo, Ukraine and Libya. The global disparity in Maternal mortality is her motivation she lectures for UCL Women’s health MSc program, MSF Global health and humanitarian medicine diploma, Imperial MPH and more locally for trainees in the UK. |
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Day 2
Dr Aduragbemi Banke-ThomasDr Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas is a physician and public health and health policy researcher. Presently, he is Associate Professor of Maternal and Newborn Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom where he is also Co-Director of the Centre for Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive, & Child Health. He is Visiting Professor at the University of Greenwich and on the Erasmus Mundus Europubhealth programme. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, Health Systems Research Lead at the Maternal Reproductive Health Research Collective, Nigeria and Principal Researcher at the Senghor Chair in Health and Development in sub-Saharan Africa, University of Ottawa, Canada. He is an editorial board member of PLOS Global Public Health, Reproductive Health, and BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. Aduragbemi is Principal Investigator for a number of cutting-edge research exploring issues on and strategies to optimise access, experience, and outcomes of care for pregnant women across diverse settings and has received funding for research from the National Institute of Health Research, Gates Foundation, Google, and AXA Research Fund. He has published over 100 research outputs along these themes in several leading peer-reviewed journals.
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Dr Robert C Stewart
Dr Stewart is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Global Mental Health at University of Edinburgh and a consultant perinatal psychiatrist in NHS Lothian. He conducted his PhD on the adaptation of mental health measures and their use in studies of maternal depression and child health in Malawi. He is Co-I and mental health lead on 2 large epidemiological studies: Generation Malawi (MRC) and Healthy Lives Malawi (Wellcome). He is a founding trustee of the Scotland Malawi Mental Health Education Project (SMMHEP) that has supported the training of medical students and psychiatrists in Malawi since 2006. He is interim convener of the African Alliance for Maternal Mental Health (AAMMH), a network focussed on translation of maternal mental health research findings into policy, curricula and service improvement.
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Dr Genesis Chorwe-Sungani
Dr Chorwe-Sungani is Associate Professor in Mental Health and Executive Dean of the School of Nursing at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Malawi. He conducted his PhD research on screening for common perinatal mental disorders at the University of Western Cape South Africa. His many roles include: co-I on Generation Malawi, a birth cohort study investigating the intergenerational effects of perinatal mental health; Malawi lead on eMAMA, an EU funded project developing postgraduate training in maternal mental health for Sub Saharan Africa; Co-Lead of the USAID MOMENTUM maternal mental health community of practice, evidence and impact workstream; and member of the WHO Expert committee for perinatal mental health indicators.
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Dr Ana Bonell
I am an assistant professor at the medical research council unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
I am an academic clinician with a sound understanding of clinical medicine, physiology, maternal health and epidemiology. I work mainly on the nexus between climate change and maternal and child health. Currently my research broadly spans three areas within climate and health:
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Dr Yahaya Idris
Dr Yahaya Idris (MD, MPH, master’s level course in Pandemics) has his background in human medicine with MSc in Public Health both obtained from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria and a Master’s Level Short Course in Pandemics; Emergence, Spread and Response from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).He has over 3 years of experience on maternal and child health research with the PRECISE Network at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia (MRCG) at LSHTM as a Research Clinician/Ag Clinical Study Coordinator where the study evaluated placenta disorders of pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa. He recently transited to the Nutrition and Planetary Health Theme, MRCG at LSHTM where he is now working as a Research Clinician/Study Coordinator, alongside Dr Ana Bonell as the study PI in the Wellcome Trust funded Heat in Pregnancy Study to evaluate the effects of climate change and heat stress in pregnancy and the pathophysiological and biochemical pathways associated with the deleterious pregnancy outcomes in pregnant women in The Gambia.
Yahaya has worked in the past as a Medical Officer in the Nigerian National TB/Leprosy/HIV control program and as an emergency room physician. He is keenly interested in climate change impacts on health with focus on zoonosis and one health and maternal and child health research. |
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