Akhona Tshangela
Ms. Akhona Tshangela is a trained field epidemiologist with more than 10 years of experience in public health in working in the laboratory, public health programs implementation, surveillance and public health data management. She is currently the interim Principal Program Officer were she oversees the operations of the Office of the Africa CDC Director and […]
Agnes Asele
Agnes serves as a Senior Partnership Officer under the Africa CDC’s Saving Lives and Livelihood Programme. This role entails leading efforts in building and sustaining partnerships and overseeing the program’s implementing partners. Prior to joining the SLL programme, Asele served as: The Project and Grants Management Technical Officer at Africa CDC where she played a […]
Adelard Kakunze
Dr Adelard KAKUNZE is a medical doctor, an accomplished public health professional and social entrepreneur with commitment to engage in knowledge translation to improve health systems in Africa. He is currently leading the Non-communicable diseases and Mental health Unit under the Division of Disease Control and Prevention at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and […]
Denis Bunyoga
Dr Denis Bunyoga is a public health specialist with more than five years of experience in human medical research, disease surveillance and response. He currently serves as Public Health Officer for Africa CDC Western Africa RCC, where he coordinates communication and surveillance programmes for antimicrobial resistance, Lassa fever and yellow fever programmes in Nigeria. He […]
Yahya Kandeh
Mr Yahya Kandeh is a public health officer with more than eight years of work experience in public health, project management, water hygiene, and sanitation. He currently serves as a Public Health Fellow at Africa CDC Southern Africa RCC, where he supports strategic planning and provides technical assistance to Member States on disease surveillance and […]
Michael Boluwatife
Haftom Taame
Mr Haftom Taame is an epidemiologist with more than 12 years of work experience in public health surveillance, outbreak investigation, health system designs, strategic planning, incident management, emergency operations center, and mentorship. He currently serves as Epidemiologist at Africa CDC, where he is responsible for supporting the establishment and strengthening of National Public Health Institutes […]
Donewell Bangure
Mr Donewell Bangure is an epidemiologist with African Union in the Laboratory Systems and Networks Division of Africa CDC. He has more than 15 years of work experience in public health laboratories and public health. He was among the first set of field epidemiologist responders for the African Union Support for Ebola Outbreak in West […]
Dr Yenew Kebede Tebeje
Dr Yenew Kebede Tebeje is a medical microbiologist and public health expert with 20 years of clinical, teaching, laboratory science, research, capacity building, and programme design and management experience. His achievements include building laboratory systems in low-income countries, human resource capacity development, and development of policy frameworks and guidelines that impact laboratory programmes in Africa. […]
Dr Merawi Aragaw Tegegne
Dr Merawi Aragaw is a Medical Epidemiologist with more than 10 years of experience in health systems and public health programmes, disease surveillance, investigation and management of disasters and outbreaks, and evaluation of surveillance system. He currently serves as Acting Head of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Division at Africa CDC, where he oversees coordination […]