Education

Mentorship for the
next generation of
African researchers

Public Health Leadership is one of AHPLI's five working groups: training, mentorship, and a prolific publication record built by the people below.

Meet the AHPLI experts

Fifteen founding experts, twelve countries

Public health practitioners, physicians, pharmacists, and researchers coordinating asynchronously across the continent.

Samuel BN Babajuah

Samuel BN Babajuah

Liberia · Founder & CEO

MPH, BPA, PhD in Public Health Policy and Management.

Moses Mugerwa

Moses Mugerwa

Uganda

MPH; EMR/digital health implementation research, WASH, PLOS ONE co-author.

Alieu Sam

Alieu Sam

Sierra Leone

MPH + MBA Hospital Administration; district CHW policy coordination.

Joseph Katongo Musonda

Joseph Katongo Musonda

Zambia

MD, MPH; health insurance compliance, resource mobilization.

Dr. Guerde Yeremon Onacis

Dr. Guerde Yeremon Onacis

Central African Republic

MD; WHO outbreak/surveillance consultant, MSF clinical experience.

Mugisha John

Mugisha John

Rwanda

PhD candidate, Public Health Policy Management; ministry-level policy implementation.

Julius Niyibizi

Julius Niyibizi

Rwanda

Pharmacist, MPH; pharmacovigilance, USAID/FDA consulting experience.

Time Abdalla

Time Abdalla

Kenya

MPH (in progress); county-level outbreak response, CHW training.

Yerima Fatima Abubakar

Yerima Fatima Abubakar

Nigeria

BSc Human Anatomy, MPH; epidemiological research design.

Lyse Clementine Mpozabavyeyi

Lyse Clementine Mpozabavyeyi

Burundi

MD, MPH student; CDC Guangzhou surveillance/outbreak-preparedness training.

Aaron Pittman

Aaron Pittman

Liberia

PhD Chemical Engineering; critical-metals recovery, water-treatment membranes.

Chikondi Sakala

Chikondi Sakala

Zambia

MD; student leadership, event planning.

LC

Lorraine Chimanga

Zimbabwe

BA Social Work; community mobilization, gender-responsive programming.

Public Health Leadership

Training built for a working cohort

Our founding cohort also needs to earn a living, so training is small, rotating, and opt-in rather than a full-time program.

Graduating class of community health practitioners
Cohort Training

Mentorship pathways for early-career public health researchers

Student participating in a lecture in Lagos
Knowledge Translation

Turning field data into papers, briefs, and public evidence

Participant taking notes during a session in Burundi
Working Groups

Five rotating working groups, built for a founding cohort