People

Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fountain

Workshop Organizers

Vanitha Raguveer

Medical Student at the University of Illinois at ChicagoResearcher with the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change

Nakul Raykar, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s HospitalFellowship Director, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School
Nakul Raykar

Workshop Participants

Yetmgeta Eyayou Abdella, MD, MPH

Medical Officer for Blood and other Products of Human Origin at WHO Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean
Yetmgeta Eyayou Abdella

Asma Aliawadh, MBBS, MHM, MIPH

Medical Officer of Health for Langata and Kibera Sub-Counties in KenyaSenior Training Consultant and Master Trainer with Hemafuse from Sisu Global Health Limited
Asma Aliawadh

Lucy Asamoah-Akuoko, MD, PhD, MPH

Director, Research, Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation; National Blood Service GhanaPrincipal Investigator of NIH BLOODSAFE in GhanaDirector of Research, Development and Projects for the Ghana-based Centre for Science and Health Communication
Lucy Asamoah-Akuoko

Linda Barnes, PhD, MHA

Implementation Expert in advanced cellular therapies and blood transfusion continuumConsultant to AABB, PAHO and emerging biotherapeutic companies
Linda Barnes

COL Andrew P. Cap, MS, MD, PhD, FACP

Director of Research/Chief Scientific Officer, US Army Institute of Surgical ResearchHematology-Oncology Consultant to the US Army Surgeon GeneralProfessor of Medicine, Uniformed Services University
Andrew P. Cap

Meghan Delaney, DO, MPH

Chief of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Division at Children’s National HospitalProfessor in the departments of Pathology & Pediatrics at The George Washington UniversityChair of the NIH BLOODSAFE Program
Meghan Delaney

Vijay Anand Ismavel, MS, MCh

Mission Network Consultant at Christian Medical College VelloreRetired Consultant Surgeon with Makunda Christian HospitalAutotransfusion Pioneerivijayanand@yahoo.in
Vijay Anand Ismavel

Gilchrist Lokoel, MBChB

Director of Medical Services in Turkana County GovernmentFormer Medical Officer at Lodwar County Referral Hospital
Gilchrist Lokoel

Joy Mammen, MD

Professor in Department of Transfusion Medicine at Christian Medical College VelloreExpert Consultant for National Blood Transfusion Council of India and WHO
Joy Mammen

Marie Paul Nisingwe

MS, PhD Candidate at University of British Columbia, Canada Consultant for USAID “Together for Health” Project and World Bank

Juan Carlos Puyana

Director for Global Health-Surgery and Professor of Surgery, Critical Care MedicineClinical Translational Science at the University of PittsburghPrincipal Investigator of NIH BLOODSAFE in Kenya
Juan Carlos Puyana

Nobhojit Roy, MS, MPH, PhD

General and Trauma Surgeon from Mumbai, IndiaWHO Technical Officer in Operative Care, Clinical Services and SystemsLancet Commissioner in Global Surgery and Poverty Commission for NCD Injuries
Nobhojit Roy

Gatare Swaibu

Director of Biomedical Services at Rwanda Biomedical CentreMedical Doctor at Rwandan Ministry of Health
Gatare Swaibu

Claude Tayou Tagny, MD, MS, MSc

Professor of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine at the University of YaoundéHead of the hematology and blood transfusion service at Yaoundé University Teaching Hospital
Claude Tayou Tagny

Dilys Walker

MD, Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive SciencesDirector of Global Health Research for the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive HealthDirector for the Institute of Global Health Science Center for Global Maternal Newborn Child Health Research at University of California, San Francisco

Caroline Wesonga, MSc, MA

Coalition of Blood for Africa Leader, Former First Lady of County in Kenya, and grassroots policy and patient advocate for social inequities in health, and blood availability.MSc in Health Economics and Policy from London School of Economics MA in Public Policy from University of Chicago
Caroline Wesonga

Shimian Zou, PhD

PhDHealth Scientist Administrator at the Blood Epidemiology and Clinical Therapeutics Branch (BECTB), Division of Blood Diseases and Resources (DBDR), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Research team