Principles of Medicine in Africa

David Mabey is a physician specialising in Infectious and Tropical Diseases. He worked as a clinician in The Gambia for eight years before joining LSHTM, where he was head of the Clinical Research Department, Director of the Wellcome Trust Bloomsbury Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine and Director of the WHO Collaborating centre for the Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections. He chairs the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group of the WHO Department of Neglected Tropical Diseases and is a former president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.

Martin W. Weber is Team lead for Quality of Care, WHO Regional Office for Europe. He is a paediatrician who has been working for WHO for over twenty years in different continents, improving the care for mothers and children. He spent six years at the MRC labs in the Gambia where he was involved in the development and testing of clinical algorithms for newborn babies and children which became widely used as IMCI. He led the development of the Pocket book of children, a standard for clinical management in small hospitals widely translated and used for quality improvement in hospitals.

Moffat Nyirenda is a Diabetologist/Endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine (Global Non-Communicable Diseases) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and leads the non-communicable disease research theme at MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit. He was among the first graduates from the College of Medicine in Malawi, with “hybrid” training between University College London and University of Malawi. He subsequently trained and worked at the University of Edinburgh, supported by a prestigious MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship. Before taking up his current position at LSHTM in August 2013, he was Professor of Research at Malawi College of Medicine and Associate Director of Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme. He is on the International Advisory Board for Davidson’s principles and Practice of Medicine.

Dorothy Yeboah-Manu is a Professor of Microbiology and the Director, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana. A major focus of her research is on tuberculosis and Buruli ulcer. She is a member of several local and international committees including the chairperson of the Advisory Board of the National Tuberculosis Program and the Vice President of the Immunological Society of Ghana. Dorothy Received the Royal Society Africa Prize in 2018 and a Senior Fellow of the EDCTP.

Jackson Orem is a medical oncologist and Executive Director of the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI), a teaching and research institute of the Government of Uganda affiliated with Makerere University. He is currently spearheading the operationalization of the East Africa Centre of Excellence in Oncology (EACOE) at the Uganda Cancer Institute with the mandate of providing specialized cancer care research and training for the entire East Africa region under the East African Community (EAC) countries. He is also the alternate chair for African Cancer Coalition an initiative to improve management of cancer by harmonization of treatment practices in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Laura Benjamin is a Principal Research Fellow of Neurology at University College London and Honorary Consultant in Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London Hospital. She has worked and lectured in East/Southern Africa with a particular focus on Neurological infection and stroke.

Michael Marks is an Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at LSHTM and Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, University College London Hospital. He has worked in both the Pacific and West Africa with a particular focus on neglected tropical diseases and sexually transmitted infections.

Nicholas A. Feasey is an Infectious Diseases physician and Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He is based at the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Research Programme, part of the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Blantyre, Malawi. His research is focused on the surveillance and management of antimicrobial resistant bacterial infection, and taking a one health approach to exploring the transmission of enteric pathogens associated with invasive disease, and he is a senior physician at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre.