Dr James Tibenderana
Dr James Tibenderana is Malaria Consortium’s Technical Director. He provides strategic technical oversight to the organisation’s work globally.
James will be presenting as part of a symposium on Engaging High-Risk Communities to Accelerate Malaria Elimination. You can also catch up throughout the week at Booth 419. Come along for a coffee and a chat.
Dr Arantxa Roca-Feltrer
Dr Arantxa Roca-Feltrer is a malaria epidemiologist by training with over 15 years of experience in both the African and Asian regions. As Malaria Consortium’s Head of Monitoring and Evaluation, she contributes to supporting global strategic policies, approaches and priorities for Surveillance as well as M&E strategies within the malaria control to elimination spectrum to the regions and countries.
You can find Arantxa at Booth 419 throughout the week.
Dr Kevin Baker
Dr Kevin Baker is Senior Research Specialist at Malaria Consortium. He also leads the Every Breath Counts Research Group focussing on pneumonia innovations. His interests include diagnostics, pneumonia, maternal and child health, research design and implementation. Currently managing a large multi-country diagnostics trial investigating improved diagnostic tools for the detection of the signs and symptoms of pneumonia at the community level.
Charlotte Ward
Charlotte Ward is Senior Research Officer at Malaria Consortium. Charlotte is responsible for delivery of scientifically robust research outputs, design of study protocols, design of data collection materials and data analyses for multiple country projects in low-resource settings across Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia.
Charlotte will be presenting on working towards an improved reference standard for counting respiratory rate to validate new automated pneumonia diagnostic aids for children under five at Scientific Session 157.
Dr Olusola Oresanya
Dr Olusola Oresanya is Malaria Consortium’s Country Technical Coordinator in Nigeria. She provides technical oversight and support to all of our programmes in the country. This includes the DFID-funded SuNMaP 2.
Olusola is presenting on an assessment of quality of delivery of seasonal malaria chemoprevention using low literate community health workers in Nigeria and on examining the feasibility of Community Health Worker delivery of Severe Acute Malnutrition treatment using an innovative simplified low-literacy protocol in Nigeria.
Maddy Marasciulo-Rice
Maddy Marasciulo-Rice is Case Management Specialist at Malaria Consortium. Maddy provides technical support to global country programmes on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea, malnutrition and dengue. She also serves as Malaria Consortium's US representative.
You can find Maddy at Booth 419 throughout the week.
Christian Rassi
Christian Rassi is the Programme Director for Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) programme, which, in 2019, reached close to 6 million children under 5 in Burkina Faso, Chad and Nigeria. Previously, he coordinated Malaria Consortium’s participation in a health service delivery research programme, specialising in implementation research, community engagement, social and behaviour change.
You can find Christian at Booth 419 throughout the week.
Our team from USAID’s Malaria Action Program for Districts:
Malaria Consortium leads USAID’s Malaria Action Program for Districts across 43 districts in Uganda. The programme is focussed on the prevention and control of malaria through the implementation of interventions to protect and improve the health of vulnerable mothers, babies and children. A number of experts from this programme are presenting posters about the progress of the programme.
Ruth Kigozi - M&E and Knowledge Management Specialist
Daniella Busharizi - Regional Coordinator for the MAPD programme in Masaka
John Baptist Bwanika - Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
Patrick Bukoma - Malaria Specialist
Abiola Oluwagbemiga
Senior Project Manager, Nigeria
Abiola Oluwagbemiga currently serves as the Senior Project Manager for the Insecticide-treated Net (ITN) Campaign Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) project at Malaria Consortium in Nigeria. He has over a decade of experience in the management of public health interventions and research, and has expertise in project management, capacity and communications.
Anthony Nuwa
Senior Country Technical Coordinator, Uganda
As Malaria Consortium's Senior Country Technical Coordinator in Uganda, Anthony provides technical support and leadership to the country programmes. He has over 20 years' experience as a medical doctor and expertise in health services research, M&E and operational research on malaria prevention, diagnostics and case management.
Chinazo Ujuju
Senior Project Manager, Nigeria
Chinazo is the Senior Project Manager for the Perennial Malaria Chemoprevention (PMC-Effect) project at Malaria Consortium Nigeria. She holds MSc in Global Health and Infectious Diseases and have over 18 years of experience providing evidence to inform health interventions. Her experience spans across multiple thematic areas in health, including malaria, maternal and child health, reproductive health, HIV and nutrition.
Dr Chuks Nnaji
Senior Epidemiologist, UK
Chuks is a Senior Epidemiologist at Malaria Consortium, where he leads the M&E portfolio of the seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) programme. He also provides technical support to global and country teams on epidemiological and quantitative research methods.
Chukwuebuka Ezihe
Entomologist, Nigeria
Chukwuebuka is an entomologist with over 11 years' experience, coordinating entomological studies and ITN durability assessments in the Ondo and Anambra ITN Campaign M&E Project. He provides technical guidance to ensure sound vector control strategies. He provides oversight, technical inputs to vector surveillance and guides data-informed decision-making for both the project and Malaria Consortium Nigeria.
Craig Bonnington
Senior Technical Advisor (SMC), UK
Craig is the Senior Technical Advisor for Malaria Consortium's SMC programme, with a particular focus on the future of SMC, exploring new approaches and models. He leads on antimalarial drug resistance and malaria parasite genomics and provides technical support for malaria control in humanitarian settings and elimination contexts.
David Odong Salandi
Project Manager, SMC, Uganda
David Odong Salandini is a Project Manager for Malaria Consortium's SMC programme in Uganda. He is an International Health and Management professional with over 12 years of experience in programming for prevention and control of malaria with specific expertise in insecticidal treated nets, chemoprevention, integrated community case management. My areas of special interest include child health, neglected tropical diseases, community engagement, implementational and operational research work.
Dorcas Essien
Digital Health Manager, Nigeria
Dorcas Essien is a Digital Health Manager for Malaria Consortium, Nigeria. She oversees the organisation's digital health strategies, facilitating the implementation and enhancement of digital health systems to optimise programme implementation in line with its digital health strategies and global best practices. She has over five years' experience specialising in developing software innovations and strategies supporting effective service delivery, and facilitates access to high-quality data for informed decision-making. She is pursuing an Msc in Data Science and Business Analytics.
Fantche Awokou
Country Technical Coordinator, Togo
Fantche is a medical doctor and malaria public health specialist with over 20 years of experience in the fields of public health, infectious and tropical diseases and programme management. He is the Country Technical Coordinator for Malaria Consortium in Togo, where he provides technical oversight for all country programmes and research projects.
Francis Okot
Research Coordinator, South Sudan
Francis is a Research Coordinator at Malaria Consortium in South Sudan, where he specialises in medical microbiology, public health, data analysis and management. He has more than a decade of experience in conducting health sciences research and teaching.
Hannah Edwards
Senior Technical Advisor (SME)
Hannah is a Senior Technical Advisor for Malaria Consortium in Surveillance and Response. During her PhD she studied genomic surveillance, transmission modelling and molecular epidemiology. She uses this expertise to support the organisation with incorporation modelling and genomic tools to strengthen data use for decision-making.
Dr James Tibenderana
Chief Executive, UK
James is Malaria Consortium's Chief Executive, a trained medical doctor and malaria public health expert with over 20 years of experience in the fields of epidemiology, infectious and tropical diseases and health system strengthening. He is passionate about, and remains actively involved in, operational research on communicable diseases.
Katherine Theiss-Nyland
Technical Director, UK
Katherine brings 15 years’ experience in epidemiology to her role as Technical Director of Malaria Consortium. She has led initiatives in diverse health settings including community health programming and supports the organisation to drive key partnerships with international stakeholders and develop policy and implementation recommendations.
Kevin Baker
Senior Research Advisor, UK
Kevin is a Senior Research Advisor at Malaria Consortium, focusing on increasing the policy and evidence base on intervention science. He provides technical support and oversight to the design, implementation and evaluation of large-scale studies, testing innovative diagnostic tools and algorithms, with specific reference to community-based approaches.
Dr Margaret Ebob Besem
Operational Research Specialist, Cameroon
Margaret Ebob Besem is an Operational Research Specialist, working on the Breaking Barriers research project in conflict-afficted settings in Cameroon since 2021. She has a PhD in Public health and seven years' experience as an epidemiologist and public health researcher. She worked with UNOCHA as an epidemiologist and also with Médecins Sans Frontières
Monica Anna de Cola
Results Measurement Analyst, UK
Monica is a PhD candidate working for Malaria Consortium and the Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College. Her research focuses on using routinely collected data to estimate the impact of malaria prevention interventions and using mathematical modelling techniques to better estimate and understand impact in these data sources.
Dr Musa Odongo
Technical Specialist, Uganda
Musa is a Technical Specialist at Malaria Consortium in Uganda and a medical practitioner with over 15 years' experience. He provides technical expertise at country and district level to the National Malaria Control Division in design, planning, implementation and M&E of seasonal malaria chemoprevention. His latest research has focused on the introduction and scale-up of Malaria Consortium's SMC programme as an intervention for malaria control in Karamoja, Uganda.
Dr Olusola (Sola) Oresanya
Country Technical Coordinator, Nigeria
Sola is a public health specialist with a strong base in epidemiology and over 20 years' experience as a medical doctor. As the organisation's Country Technical Coordinator in Nigeria, she provides technical oversight for projects and programmes and supports with large-scale surveys, implementation research and other monitoring and impact evaluation surveys.
Dr Richard Kajubi
Senior Clinical Trial Manager, Uganda
Richard currently serves as the Senior Clinical Trial Manager at Malaria Consortium, Uganda. As a medical doctor and research scientist with over 15 years' experience, he supports the organisation to manage clinical trials in tropical infectious diseases.
Saliu Ogunmola
Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, Nigeria
Saliu is a Monitoring and Evaluation manager at Malaria Consortium in Nigeria. He has over 10 years of cognate experience in research coordination, qualitative and quantitative surveys, and household survey coordination, and is engaged in M&E activities of the ITN M&E project in Anambra state. He has solid background in data management and data quality, as well as strong analytical skills, and survey report writing. He provides technical guidance for ensuring that high-quality data are consistently available in a usable format.
Dr Sonia Maria Mauricio Enosse
Country Technical Coordinator, Mozambique
Sonia is the Country Technical Coordinator at Malaria Consortium in Mozambique, where she oversees projects, particularly in epidemiology and drug resistance, and is expanding her research to HIV and clinical trials. She holds a PhD in Molecular Epidemiology from the University of Copenhagen.
Ashley Giles
SMC External Relations Manager, UK
Ashley is External Relations Manager for Malaria Consortium’s SMC programme. Based in London, he is a specialist in communications and advocacy in global health and oversees the programme’s external outreach and policy engagements.
Christian Rassi
SMC Programme Director, UK
Christian is the Programme Director of Malaria Consortium’s SMC programme. He is based in London and has led the SMC programme since 2019. Previously, he managed Malaria Consortium’s participation in a research programme consortium that explored health service delivery issues.
Mor Ben-Atar
Development Director, UK
As Development Director, Mor leads the development and execution of Malaria Consortium's growth strategy, focusing on expanding impact and reach in combating targeted diseases and promoting universal health coverage. Mor's background is in International Development an Economic Public Policy with extensive experience in the Global Health sector.
Rachel Robinson
Senior Communications Officer, UK
As Senior Communications Officer, Rachel supports the production of communications initiatives to share Malaria Consortium's work in Africa and Asia. Prior to joining the organisation, Rachel worked in Ghana for an INGO improving early childhood care and education, where she helped to strengthen government partnerships.