Principles of Medicine in Africa

Yayehyirad Kitaw, Mitike Molla, Gail Davey, Eldryd Parry, Helen Nabwera, Modou Jobe, Andrew M. Prentice, Nathan Post, Kiran Jobanputra, Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa, Bukola Elizabeth Oluyide, Robert Onus, Bhargavi Rao, Heiner Grosskurth, Benson Droti, Juliet Nabyonga, Jean Baptiste Nikiema, Ruairi Brugha, Derrick Muneene, Tim Baker, Ben Morton, Karima Khalid, Mtisunge Kachingwe, Trustworthy Majuta, Camilla Buchanan, Peter Olute Okoth, Amha Achamyelew Yigzaw, Fabio Uxa, Helenlouise Taylor, Venice Omona, Giorgio Tamburlini, Anne J. Rerimoi, Ayo Palmer, E. Kim Mulholland, Martin W. Weber, Samuel Akech, Steve Collins, Marko Kerac, James A. Berkley, Bridget Freyne, Watipaso Wanda, Jenala Njirammadzi, Melita Gordon, Ambrose Agweyu, Heather Zar, Oghenebrume Wariri, Lien Anh Ha Do, Assan Jaye, Hilton C. Whittle, Rudzani Muloiwa, Gyaviira Nkurunungi, Gift Ahimbisibwe, Stephen Cose, Heidi Hopkins, Joaniter I. Nankabirwa, David Mabey, Christopher J. M. Whitty, Bayodé Roméo, Priscilla Haguma, Emmanuel Nsutebu, Sharon Nyesiga, Jamie Rylance, Shevin Jacob, Rodgers Ayebare, Daniel Bulwadda, Mohammed Lamorde, Titus Divala, Sam Ghebrehewet, Peter MacPherson, Sarah Staedke, Joaniter Nankabirwa, Arthur Mpimbaza, Abel Kakuru, Nyasha Veronica Dzavakwa, Sara Lowe, Rashida Ferrand, Linda Boloko, David Barr, Sean Wasserman, Charlotte Schutz, Graeme Meintjes, Stephen Gordon, Dingase Dula, Johnstone Kumwenda, Olubukola T. Idoko, Philippe Mayaud, Daniel J. McCartney, Francis J. Ndowa, David C. W. Mabey, Priyanka Patel, Esmeda Chirwa, Agness Lakudzala, Tom Parks, Frieder Schaumburg, Soumeya Ouangraoua, Mouhamadou Abdoulaye Sonko, Matthew P. Rubach, Elichilia R. Shao, Venance P. Maro, John Crump, Michael J. Maze, Georgies F. Mgode, Kajiru Kilonzo, John Crump, Geraint R. Davies, Robin Bailey, Richard Kock, Abdinasir Yusuf Osman, Leonard Mboera, Richard Idro, Charles R. Newton, Derek J. Sloan, Stellah G. Mpagama, Saba M. Lambert, Steve L. Walker, Richard Odame Phillips, Yaw Ampem Amoako, Samuel Duodu, Gloria Ansa, Japheth A. Opintan, Japheth A. Opintan, Appiah-Korang Labi, Noah Obeng-Nkrumah, Antoinette Bediako-Bowan, Emma Thompson, Catherine Houlihan, Naomi Walker, Stella Atim, Izabela Mauricio de Rezende, Derick Kimathi, George M. Warimwe, A. Desiree LaBeaud, Oyewale Tomori, Betty S. Apica, Geraldine A. O'Hara, Jolynne Mokaya , George M. Warimwe, Marieke Cornelia Johanna Dekker, Elichilia Robert Shao, Sarah Japhet Urasa, William Patrick Howlett, Nginache Nampota-Nkomba, Antonia Ho, Pascal Mkanda, Andrew Hall, Colin S. Brown, Olusola Aruna, Adesola Yinka-Ogunleye, Lance Turtle, Michael Abouyannis, Mainga Hamaluba, Michael Abouyannis, Mainga Hamaluba, Titus Divala, Michael Marks, Antonia Ho, Eduard Zijlstra, Ahmed M. Musa, Janelisa Musaya, Peter Nambala, Westain Tizgo Nyirenda, Julius Mulindwa, Eduard Zijlstra, Paul Kelly, Humphrey Mazigo, Michael Brown, Simon J Brooker, Stella Kepha, Amaya Bustinduy, Sekeleghe Kayuni, Ana Olga Mocumbi, Camilla Rothe, Linda B. Debrah, Samuel Wanji, Inge Kroidl, Michele Esther Murdoch, Ian Elliot Murdoch, Ewan Hunter, Sarah Urasa, Laura Nabarro, Karima Achour, Camilla Rothe, Clare E. Warrell, Anna M. Checkley, Chris Bodimeade, Rita Oladele, Olusola Ayanlowo, Bright Ocansey, Neil R. H. Stone, Yoseph Mamo, Andrew Mortimore, David I. W. Phillips, Jean Claude N. Mbanya, Camille M. Mba, Andrew E. Uloko, Roberta Lamptey, Geoffrey V. Gill, Richard W Walker, Matthew L. Davies, Kathleen Bateman, Tamara Phiri, Myles Connor, Alan Bryer, Laura Benjamin, Thembi Katangwe, Tiwonge Phiri, Macpherson Mallewa, Primrose Nyamayaro , Clement Nhunzvi, Rukudzo Mwamuka, Awoke Mihretu, Dixon Chibanda, Rebecca Nantanda, Duncan G. Fullerton, Kevin Mortimer, Refiloe Masekela, Brian Allwood, Stephen B. Gordon, Jeremiah Chakaya, Chris Lavy, Tracey Smythe, Debra Mudariki, Charles Kiiza Mondo , Juergen Freers, Twalib Aliku, Zhang Wanzhu, John G. Kellett, Jamie Rylance, Bruce Kirenga, I

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.