Michaela Mantel
Michaela Mantel (MD, MPH) has worked in the health sector for more than 30 years. After gaining her Master Degree at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, USA, she shifted from clinical services to public health working in East Africa, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, India, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Eastern Europe. She has extensive experience in health system strengthening and community health; health programming; strategic and health policy development; monitoring, evaluation, research and learning. Her focus is on sexual and reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health. Dr Mantel joined the Aga Khan Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland in 2006 and moved to Nairobi, Kenya, as member of the Aga Khan University faculty from 2012 to 2021. Dr Mantel is the Founding Director of THEHA currently based in Germany and Kenya.
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Vinya Ariyaratne
Vinya Ariyaratne (MD, MPH, MSc. MD) is President of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, Sri Lanka’s largest non-governmental grass roots development organization. He is Past President of the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka (CCPSL) and served as Lecturer in the Department of Community Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sri Jayawardenepura. He was a Visiting Fellow at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and a Chevening Fellow at Nuffield Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health of the University of Leeds. Dr. Ariyaratne has extensive experience in public health, community development, disaster management, nutrition, child health, working with war affected communities and internally displaced persons. He is deeply involved in COVID-19 prevention and control in Sri Lanka and serves as Co-chair of the Health Cluster of the United Nations Humanitarian Country Team.
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Robert Armstrong
Robert Armstrong (MD, FRCPC,PhD) is Emeritus Professor at the University of British Columbia and the Aga Khan University. In addition to clinical practice as a pediatrician with specialty expertise in child disability, Prof Armstrong has held leadership positions in health care and universities settings. His health care experience includes clinical service delivery operations, health care quality assurance, and programme development, monitoring and evaluation. Prof Armstrong has vast experience in education programme development, curriculum design, faculty development, and research methods. He has contributed to advances in health care and academic medicine within Canada and internationally including China, Pakistan, and East Africa with his most recent role as the Aga Khan University Foundation Dean of the Medical College in East Africa, based in Nairobi, from 2010 to 2020. He is now based in Vancouver, Canada.
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Sarah Macfarlane
Sarah Macfarlane (PhD, MSc.) is Professor Emerita at the University of California San Francisco. She is a Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, UK. Dr Macfarlane has held academic positions in Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States and served as an associate director for international health at the Rockefeller Foundation. She has worked internationally with ministries of health, teaching and research institutions and international agencies in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Macfarlane provides extensive teaching and research experience in statistics, health information systems and epidemiology. She works with academic institutions to build capacity for research and develop human resources for health – specialising in curricular revision and faculty development. She is now based in the United Kingdom.
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