RESEARCH CONSORTIUM MEMBERS
Name | Country | Areas of Expertise |
Dr. Tonderai Mapako (Coordinator) | Zimbabwe | Planning, Information and Research Manager at National Blood Service Zimbabwe; Ph.D. student at University of Gronigen, Netherlands |
Prof. Claude Tayou Tagny | Cameroon | Associate Professor of Haematology at University of Yaoundé |
Ms. Marion Vermeulen | South Africa | Laboratory Manager at SANBS in Johannesburg |
Dr. Shirley Owusu-Ofori | Ghana | Head of Transfusion Medicine Centre at Komfo Anoyke Teaching Hospital in Kumasi; Head Central Area Blood Centre at Ghana National Blood Service |
Dr. Lucy Asamoah-Akuoko | Ghana | Head Research and Development at Ghana National Blood Service |
Dr. Nyashadzaishe Mafirakureva | UK | Senior Research Associate in Health Economics at Bristol Medical School |
CO-OPTED MEMBERS
Name | Country | Position |
Dr. Jean-Baptiste Tapko | Cameroon | Chair AfSBT Transfusion-Associated Infection Committee |
Dr. Mohammed Farouk | Egypt | Chair AfSBT Transfusion Medicine and Science Committee |
Ms. Molly Gondwe | Malawi | Secretariat on the AfSBT Management Office |
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ADVISORY GROUP
Name | Country | Position/ Areas of Expertise |
Prof. Imelda Bates | UK | Chair in Clinical tropical Haematology at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine |
Dr. Oliver Hassall | UK | Project Technical Advisor & Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine |
Prof Ed Murphy | UK | Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Epidemiology at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Senior Investigator at Blood Systems Research Institute (BSRI) |
Ms. Judith Chapman | Netherlands/UK | ISBT Executive Director |
Dr. Rene van Hulst | Netherlands | Health Economist, Global Health Research |