Co-Investigators, Partners and Scientific Advisory group
Rwanda
Rwanda
Research team
Professor Jean Claude BYIRINGIRO, University of Rwanda, Co-Principal Investigator
Jean Claude BYIRINGIRO is an Associate Professor of Surgery (Orthopedics) and Dean at the School of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Rwanda, College of Medicine and Health Science. He previously served in positions of Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon, Head of Accident and Emergency Department, Director of Clinical Services and Founding Head of Division of Clinical Education and Research at the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK). He has also been the Vice-Chairperson and Acting Chairperson of Rwanda Medical and Dental Council between 2016 and 2022. Jean Claude has championed the development of modern injury management systems at CHUK including the establishment of a triage system, an early warning score and a reorganised patient flow in the Accident and Emergency Department, and has worked with the prehospital ambulance service, SAMU (Service d’Aide Medicale d’Urgence), to develop a data-driven quality improvement system. Jean Claude’s scientific work in the domain of global surgery, specifically in injury prevention and management systems has attracted many research grants and resulted in more than 35 peer-reviewed publications. During his tenure as Dean of the School of Medicine and Pharmacy (still ongoing), Jean Claude has led the development of more than 15 new academic programs.
Professor Abebe Bekele, University of Global Health Equity
Abebe Bekele, is Deputy Vice Chancellor of Academic and Research Affaires, and Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE). He is a Professor of Surgery (General and Thoracic surgery) and has served as CEO of the Black Lion teaching Hospital and Dean of the School of Medicine of Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. He also has full professor faculty positions at the Addis Ababa University and the University of Rwanda. He has received additional fellowship in Medical Education from FAIMER and in Simulation Based Education from the University of Washington. He has vast experience in surgical education, academic leadership, and governance. He has also served as guest lecturer, international speaker and external examiner in undergraduate and post graduate education in Ethiopia, Africa, Europe and North America.
Professor Abebe is a member of the Governing Council and Chairman of the Examinations and Credentials Committee at the College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) and Editor-in Chief of the East and Central Africa Journal of Surgery.
Professor Abebe is actively engaged in Global Safe Surgery and Anesthesia Initiatives and has served as a senior advisor to the Federal Ministry of Health, Ethiopia in the Saving Lives Through Safe Surgery (SaLTS) initiative. His research interest include equity in global surgery, trauma care, surgical oncology, medical education, and quality in health care.
Dr Jean Nepomuscene Sindikubwabo, Ministry of Health Rwanda/RBC
Dr. Jean Nepomuscene SINDIKUBWABO is the SAMU services Division manager. He has a long experience in Rwanda health system. He served as clinician in different district hospitals, and medical director of district hospital for 14 years;
Dr. Jean Nepomuscene SINDIKUBWABO holds a Medical Degree (MD) and a Master's Degree in public health from the University of Rwanda.
After a long experience in Rwanda health system, Dr Jean Nepomucene Sindikubwabo joined the political career and served as a senator for a term of 8 years. He returned in the health sector in December 2020 upon appointment as SAMU services division manager at Rwanda Biomedical Centre.
Ms Jeanne d'arc Nyinawakusi, Rwanda Biomedical Centre
Mrs. Jeanne d’Arc NYINAWANKUSI is the Pre-Hospital Team Leader at the SAMU/EMS division, she is in charge of the coordination of Emergency Medical Services activities. Jeanne d’Arc has a long experience in the health system in different fields of the health sector. She has been working in the Ministry of Health and particularly within the Emergency Medical Services for 14 years as a field clinician, educator, researcher, and manager. Jeanne d’Arc is a member of the national emergency and disaster preparedness and response committee, and a member and former vice chairperson of the Rwanda Emergency Care Association. She co-authored different research projects related to emergency medical care with significant results leading to quality improvement and innovative processes within Rwanda EMS. She holds a Master's degree in the Sciences of Epidemiology.
Rwanda Build Program
Mr Rob Rickard, Software Developer Lead
Rob Rickard is the Director of the tech hub, Rwanda Build Program (RWBuild), and initially composed the '912Rwanda' detailed project plans and technology architecture in 2018, relying heavily on information from the Rwanda Ministry of Health SAMU department and local Rwandan global health professionals. Rob is excited to move the 912Rwanda project forward with the mission to reduce the overall travel time of ambulances in Kigal and with the NIH & NIHR Grant partners to also help improve prehospital emergency care through research, education, and training.
Starting in the 1990s Rob was a tech consultant building communication servers for Non-Profits, SMEs, K12 schools, and a couple of higher education institutions.
Rob is currently a US 'Techpreneur' (tech-entrepreneur) residing in Kigali. He mentored tech startups in Kigali for a decade, launching five products into the Rwandan market through his tech hub, RWBuild. In addition, Rob is a public speaker on entrepreneurism, startups, technology, communication, and productivity and has sat on steering committees for innovation and regulations in Rwanda. Aside from the 912Rwanda project, Rob is focused on the future of the Cashless Society as Founder and Interim CEO of Guhemba Ltd, an advanced payment solution in Africa.
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Dr Barnabas Alayande
Dr Barnabas Alayande is a specialist general surgeon and Global Surgery researcher with the Center for Equity in Global Surgery and an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Global Health Equity. He has an academic background in medicine and surgery, theology, business, and global surgical care, and has been involved in surgical system strengthening in sub-Saharan Africa. He drives development and delivery of novel, equity-driven contextualized, surgical curricula at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research focuses on sub-Saharan African surgical education, trauma care, surgical safety and human factors, and improvisation with innovation.
Miss Irene Bagahirwa, Rwanda Biomedical Centre
Irene is a Public Health specialist with 18 years of technical experience in coordinating technical aspects of health programs, disease prevention and control. She currently leads the Injuries and Disability Unit at Non Communicable Diseases Division in Rwanda Biomedical Centre. Irene is a research-driven public health professional who has been published in different journals. A highly organised and attentive to details with strong administrative and leadership skills, Irene holds a certificate of public health Leadership from the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Washington, where she completed a six months training in September 2021.
Mr Gilbert Rukundo, Health Innovation Opportunities Specialist, Rwanda Biomedical Centre
Gilbert Rukundo holds a degree in bio-statistics from Hasselt University in Belgium. He has an extensive background in applied statistics methods and database administration developed over the last 9 years of work in research and health informatics. He has a professional expertise in project monitoring, research tools (Protocol CRF) design, healthcare data management, development of interactive visualization dashboards, and utilization of data science techniques to analyse complex survey data. Currently, he is employed at the Rwanda Biomedical Centre, where his responsibilities encompass advancing high-quality research, fostering innovation, and driving data science initiatives, among other duties.
Education: PhD Candidate, University of Rwanda, Biostatistics, Master of Science in Biostatistics, University of Hasselt, Belgium, Bachelor of Science in Applied mathematics, National University of Rwanda, Butare.
Mr Collins Inkotanyi, University of Global Health Equity
Collins Fred Inkotanyi joined UGHE in 2019, he holds a Bachelor of Biotechnology from the University of Rwanda and currently pursuing an MBA from Edinburgh University and a certificate in project management from Galilee Institute of Management. Collins has wide expertise in operations, project management, business development and hospitality for over 6 years of experience. Collins is passionate about community development, creating a campus environment where people feel welcome, and he strongly believes in social justice, empowering communities and access to quality healthcare.
Dr Philbert MUHIRE, Director General of Ruhengeri Level Two Teaching Hospital
Dr Philbert MUHIRE is a Medical Doctor and holder of a Masters Degree in Public Health, with an International Health Specialization. Dr Muhire Philbert is currently a Director General of Ruhengeri Referral Hospital since January 2019. He is a certified public health leader by University of Washington, School of Public Policy and Governance through International Program in Public Health Leadership. He is also pursuing a Masters in Business Administration, Global Health Care Management at UCAM University in Spain. He has served as a Director General of Rwamagana Provincial Hospital from January 2016 to December 2018. Between June 2015 and December 2016, He was leading Pediatric HIV Program in Rwanda Biomedical Centre. With extensive experience in HIV Care and treatment, He has been a National Mentor in HIV Care and treatment for four years after serving as a Medical Officer in Different District Hospitals in Rwanda.
Dr MUHIRE Philbert is a committed Health care leader and always open for constructive ideas in terms of health planning, clinical research, disease prevention, primary health care provision and High Tech in Medical care.
UK
UK
University of Birmingham Research team
Professor Justine Davies, Research Lead, Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor Justine Davies' aim is to do research that informs development of health systems that deliver quality care in lower- or middle-income countries. All of her research aims to answer a policy relevant question and she often works with policy makers, including the WHO. Specialty areas of interest are conditions that require surgery to treat, injuries, and cardiovascular diseases and their risk factors. All of these specialty areas require a joined-up health system that provides good quality care. Professor Davies is the lead of the Institute for Global Innovation’s Ageing Frailty, and Resilience theme, co-lead of the Global Health Research Impact Hub and Network at the University of Birmingham. She also is the co-PI of the NIHR funded Global Health Group – Equi-Injury
Dr Agnieszka Ignatowicz, Co-Investigator, Department of Applied Health Sciences
Dr Agnieszka Ignatowicz is an Assistant Professor in Health Research Methods working in the Institute of Applied Health Research at the University of Birmingham. She is an experienced applied health researcher. Her scholarship is grounded in theories and methods found in the fields of sociology and implementation science with application to organization and delivery of care (particularly acute care) and healthcare work and professions across a wide range of settings. To date, Agnieszka’s research has been focusing on new models of care, technology in healthcare, clinical decision-making, and patient and clinician experiences. Her research led to significant advances in the understanding of how different initiatives deliver (or fail to deliver) expected benefits and support translation of the evidence for service changes, practice, and policy. She has experience in conducting systematic reviews, clinical research studies, and service model and policy evaluations using qualitative research designs.
Professor Antonio Belli, Department of Inflammation and Ageing, Professor of Trauma Neurosurgery and Co-Investigator
Professor Antonio Belli graduated from Tor Vergata University in Rome with a degree in Medicine and Surgery. He completed a doctoral degree (MD) on neurobiochemistry of brain ischaemia and reperfusion at Tor Vergata University and then moved to the UK in 1994.
He trained as a neurosurgeon at King’s College Hospital, Atkinson Morley’s Hospital, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital, The Royal Free Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital. Between 2001 and 2003 he carried out a research fellowship in neuromonitoring at the Institute of Neurology in London.
He is on the editorial board of several neurology journals and is an advisor to NICE and the Care Quality Commission.
Antonio Belli is Director of the NIHR SRMRC. Find out more about the work of the research centre on the SRMRC website.
Professor Richard Lilford
Professor Richard Lilford CBE, FMedSci, DSc (hon), PhD, FRCOG, FRCP, FFPH, FRCGP (hon) is Professor of Public Health at the University of Birmingham. He has pursued a successful career in medicine for over 40 years, specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology and more recently, health service research. He has research methodological expertise in the evaluation of complex interventions, rapid research, and prospective health economic evaluations of service delivery interventions. He has designed a framework for the evaluation of complex interventions that draws a crucial distinction between targeted and generic service interventions and is also interested in Bayesian statistics, medical ethics, clinical trials, step-wedge cluster trials, and multiple-indication reviews. He has also recently diversified into global health, including health and sanitation in low- and middle-income countries, treatment and prevention of leprosy and Buruli ulcers, and improving health in slums.
Professor Karla Hemming
Professor Karla Hemming leads a research programme related to stepped wedge trials, this includes both theoretical and applied research. Karla has close links with the West Midlands CLAHRC (Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care) and through this collaboration has helped establish and complete three stepped-wedge studies. Karla is affiliated with the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) and provides methodological support for the design of cluster and stepped wedge trials. Karla is known internationally as an expert in stepped-wedge trials, has been invited to speak at international conferences, sits on international data monitoring committees and receives frequent requests for advice on stepped wedge trials from around the world.Karla sits on the NIHR program grants panel, the West Midlands Research for patient benefit funding panel; and is a statistical editor for the BJOG. Karla's research interests include perinatal epidemiology, meta-analysis, missing data and cluster trials. She has conducted and published research in a number of areas, including:
Prescribing errors in electronic prescribing
Large-scale organisational intervention to improve patient safety
Bayesian sensitivity models for missing covariates in the analysis of survival data
Meta-regression with partial information
Dr Laura Quinn
Dr Laura Quinn is a Medical Statistician working in the Institute of Applied Health Research. She works part-time on a NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship in the Test Evaluation Research Group (TERG) and part-time as a Research Fellow in the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West Midlands. Laura’s main research interests include interobserver variability in diagnostic test evaluation and interrupted time series analysis. Laura has an MSc in Statistics with Applications in Medicine, University of Southampton, 2016 and a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics with Statistics, University of Limerick, 2015.
Professor Krish Nirantharakumar
Professor Krish Nirantharakumar is a senior clinical academic with substantial experience in health informatics research. He is the theme lead for health informatics and Professor in Health Data Science and Public Health at the Institute of Applied Health Research, with affiliation to the Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham. Krish has particular interests in developing novel digital tools that enable effective/efficient healthcare systems and expedite health care research. He co-innovated the Automated Clinical Epidemiology Studies tool. The innovation has led to a number of high impact publications and to a UKRI Innovation Clinical Fellowship with HDR UK. His long term mission is to lead a global health informatics team to improve the health and wellbeing of the disadvantaged communities in low and middle income countries.
Professor Chris Baber, School of Computer Science
Professor Chris Baber is Chair of Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. He joined the University of Birmingham in 1990 and, after working in several Engineering schools, joined the School of Computer Science in 2018. His research concerns human interaction with technology – specifically, in terms of human people form teams with intelligent technology, and in terms of sensor-based human-technology interaction. He has published over 100 papers in international journals, as well as over 400 conference contributions and half a dozen books. His research has been funded by the UK Ministry of Defence, RCUK, European Union and various industries. He has supervised around 30 students to the completion of their PhD.
University of Aberdeen
Dr Lucia D'Ambruoso, Co-Investigator
Dr Lucia D'Ambruoso is a social scientist and health policy and systems researcher at the University of Aberdeen, interested in service organisation and delivery, the social determinants of health, and participatory theory and method. She works with relativist theories and methods to understand and draw transferable learning on: health and wellbeing as shaped by social structures and systems; health systems as complex, adaptive, human and relational; policy norms and recognition; and social and political participation. She works with two main methods: routine mortality surveillance accounting for social dimensions of unregistered deaths, and participatory methods to shift power towards those most directly affected to know, understand, act and transform.
University of York
Professor Laura Bojke, Centre for Health Economics
Laura is a Professor at the University of York, who has worked on a wide range of applied and methodological projects across economic evaluation in her 20+ years as a health economist. She has extensive experience with both trial-based, and model based economic evaluation and has led several projects looking at developing methods for economic evaluation and decision modelling. She has worked on HTA and public health type projects.
Laura has contributed to technology appraisals for NICE in her role as a member of one of the independent academic groups undertaking assessments and evidence reviews. She is also a member of a Technology Appraisal Committee and the NIHR HS&DR Committee looking at proposals for service evaluation and improvement.
Laura currently co-leads the Applied Research and Collaborations (ARC) Yorkshire and Humber Health Economics, Evaluation and Equity them. The program of work includes the use of economic evaluation across sectors, economic evaluation for local decision makers and the use of routine data for economic evaluation.
Helen Petrie, Emeritus Professor
Professor Petrie is Professor of HCI in Computer Science. She has over 20 years of internationally-recognized research on new technologies for people with disabilities and older people to improve their quality of life and well-being. Her current interests are particularly in the area of supporting older people to live independently in their own homes for longer. She has been involved in over 30 British and international projects in these areas and has published widely. She has received a Royal Television Society Technical Innovation Prize, a Social Impact Award from the Association of Computing Machinery, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Royal National Institute for Blind People. She is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Helen Petrie BA (Melbourne) MSc (Lond) PhD (Lond) AFBPS - Computer Science, University of York
USA
USA
Utah University
Professor Sudha Jayaraman
Sudha Jayaraman, MD, MSc, FACS, is a Professor of Surgery in the Division of General Surgery and Director of the Center for Global Surgery at the University of Utah. Dr. Jayaraman completed her General Surgery residency at UCSF, during which she obtained a Masters Degree in Public Health in Developing Countries at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and worked on several projects on trauma epidemiology and trauma systems development in Uganda. After finishing residency, she went on to do a Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School where she was awarded the Harvard Medical School Health Disparities Fellowship to work on evaluating disparities in injury mortality in Kigali, Rwanda. Dr. Jayaraman has authored numerous publications on injury in low and middle income countries. She is an author and peer-reviewer for the Cochrane Systematic Reviews Injury Group and a collaborator and coauthor of numerous papers on Global Burden of Disease by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation. Her domestic interests are on medication safety in trauma and critically ill patients. She has been funded by the NIH, Rotary Foundation and DOD for domestic and global trauma research.
Scientific Advisory Committee
Scientific Advisory Committee
Chair: Joe Bonney
Emergency Physician Specialist & President of African Federation for Emergency Medicine
Dr. Joseph Bonney is a Specialist Emergency Physician at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Ghana, and heads the Research Unit of his Department. He has a Masters degree in Public Health (MPH) and Masters Degree in Disaster Medicine (MSc DM). Dr Bonney also works as a research fellow at the Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group, Kumasi Collaborative Center for Research in Tropical Medicine. and a PhD candidate with the Center for Research and Training in Disaster Medicine, Humanitarian Aid, and Global Health - University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy and has involved in Emergency Medicine development as a founding member for the Emergency Medicine Society of Ghana, member of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine- WHO Task Force, President of the African Federation of Emergency Medicine (AFEM) and a Board Member, World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM)
Deputy Chair: Lee Wallis
World Health Organization, Geneva.
Lee is Lead: Emergency Care at WHO headquarters within the Clinical Services and Systems Unit. Before that, he was Professor and Head of the Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cape Town. He was also the head of the Division of Emergency Medicine at Stellenbosch University. Lee is the past president of the Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa, the African Federation for Emergency Medicine and more recently the International Federation for Emergency Medicine.
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SAG Member: Dr Nervo Verdezoto Dias
Senior Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Cardiff University
Dr Verdezoto Dias is part of the Complex Systems Research Group and the Human-Centred Computing Research Priority Area at the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University. He is also part of our new Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Human-Machine Systems (IROHMS). Since November 2020, has been the IROHMS Cross-Cutting Themes (CCT) Academic Lead in charge of the academic issues related to the sustainable development goals and global challenges. His research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), with particular interest in the Healthcare and Sustainability domains.
His background includes Human-Centred Computing with expertise in ethnographically informed design, user-centred design, participatory design, and in the design and evaluation of socio-technical systems. His work combines fieldwork with a design-oriented research approach to further understand people’s everyday practices, different stakeholder’s needs, and how people appropriate technology. His previous work has investigated how mobile technologies can support the coordination of work of hospital orderlies and how people use and appropriate self-monitoring technologies in their everyday life in Denmark.
He has also explored the opportunities that digital health can offer to support staff and parents a Leicester’s Children Emergency department in the UK. His recent work investigates healthcare infrastructures in the Global South and how socio-technical and cultural practices influence maternal and infant health practices and services in Peru, Ecuador, South Africa, and India.
SAG Member: Willem Stassen
Emergency care practitioner, University of Cape Town
Emergency care practitioner, primarily involved in critical care retrieval via ground, helicopter or fixed wing modes of transport. I hold a Master’s degree in Emergency Medicine from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and a PhD from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. I further held certification as a critical care and flight paramedic with the International Board for Specialised Certification. My main research interests are telephonic disease prediction and triage, prehospital emergency care networks and critical care retrieval and transport.
SAG Member: Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli
Associate Professor of Economics, UCL Institute for Global Health
I am an health economist. I have over 15 years practice and research experience in health economics, focusing on health system efficiency and financing, health inequalities and economic evaluation of health interventions. In past few years I have been involved in economic analysis of a number of complex public health interventions in South-East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, mainly focusing on promoting maternal and child health and prevention of non-communicable diseases.
In addition, I have been involved in allocative efficiency of HIV, TB and essential benefit packages in a number of countries in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and South America. Injury prevention and access to trauma care is an area that I am passionate about and I have done extensive research in the early years of my career. In 2019, I was awarded a MRC Public Health Intervention Development grant to develop a community based intervention to prevent childhood injuries in Bangladesh. The project was successfully piloted in two villages in Bangladesh during 2021-22.
SAG Member: Lisa Hirschhorn
Professor of Medical Social Sciences and Director of the Ryan Family Center for Global Primary Care, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Starting as a public health and researcher and HIV physician in the 1980’s, my research has focused on understanding the causes and developing feasible and effective solutions to the implementation gap and disparities in delivery, outcomes and quality of care in resource limited settings in the US and in Africa. At Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, my current work uses implementation science methods to effectively measure and improve implementation and quality and effectiveness of care in the US and with colleagues in countries in Africa across the lifespan from neonatal sepsis to healthy ageing.
SAG Member: Dr. Respicious Boniface
Consultant Anesthesiologist and Epidemiologist
Honorary Lecturer at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied sciences (Anaesthesia - Department)
Tanzania. Dr Boniface is a Consultant anesthesiologist and epidemiologist with a strong interest in and commitment to conducting clinical research. He has over ten years’ administrative experience as head of Anesthesia department, and currently is the Executive Director of Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute.
Patrick Edrin Kyamanywa
Vice Chancellor of Uganda Martyrs University
Professor Kyamanywa is a Ugandan surgeon, academic, academic administrator and researcher.
He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in leadership of innovation and Change from York St John University in England; a master of Public Health (MPH) from the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, University of Leeds UK; a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of the United Kingdom and a founding Fellow of the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSESCA). He attained a Master of Medicine (MMed.) in General Surgery of Makerere University; a Diploma in Business Administration and Human Resource Management (HRM) from the college of professional Management New Jersey, UK; a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBChB) of Makerere University.
His career also includes: Former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Kampala International University Western Campus where he rose through the academic ranks of Full professor of Surgery, Dean and Deputy Vice- Chancellor. He has also worked as Vice Dean, Dean, Full Professor of Surgery, and Acting Principal in the College of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Rwanda.
Rob Lawrence
Director of strategic implementation for PRO EMS and Prodigy EMS, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and part-time executive director of the California Ambulance Association.
He previously served as the chief operating officer of the Richmond Ambulance Authority (Virginia), which won both state and national EMS Agency of the Year awards during his 10-year tenure. Additionally, he served as COO for Paramedics Plus in Alameda County, California. Prior to emigrating to the U.S. in 2008, Rob served as the COO for the East of England Ambulance Service in Suffolk County, England, and as the executive director of operations and service development for the East Anglian Ambulance NHS Trust.
Rob is a former Army officer and graduate of the UK's Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and served worldwide in a 20-year military career encompassing many prehospital and evacuation leadership roles. Rob is a board member of the Academy of International Mobile Healthcare Integration ( AIMHI) as well as chair of the American Ambulance Association’s Communications Committee. He writes and podcasts for EMS1.com and is a member of the EMS1 Editorial Advisory Board.
Pamela Abbott
Director of the Centre for Global Development and Professor in the School of Education at the University of Aberdeen, and Director of the Centre for Global Development
Abbott leads the Scottish Government-funded research project Fostering a Social Practice Approach to Adult Literacies for Improving People’s Quality of Life in Western Rwanda.
In her writings on feminist perspectives in sociology, Abbott challenges a limited consideration of gender issues within mainstream sociology, and advocates a reconceputialisation and interdisciplinary approach in order to question fundamental assumptions in the discipline.
Abbott's recent research interests focus on quality of life and socioeconomic transitions in societies experiencing transformations following the Arab Spring.
Ken Brown
Professor, School of Computer Science, University College Cork, Ireland
Ken is Vice Head of the School of Computer Science; Deputy Director of the Insight Artificial Intelligence laboratory in the School of Computer Science; co-Principal Investigator in Insight, the Science Foundation Ireland centre for data analytics, where he leads the national Decision-Making research challenge; and co-PI on Enable, the SFI cross centre initiative on Smart Cities and Communities. His research is focused on AI methods for decision support and automated decision making, with particular applications in vehicle routing, scheduling, human sensing and healthcare.
2022 Inception and Project Team Meeting in Kigali, Rwanda