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Mengistu

Mengistu is deputy bureau head at oromia regional health bureau,responsible for almost all health programs managed at subnational level. Has got MD 10 years back and is to defend for his MPhil in health economics from UiB-Harvard public health school joint program.

Mamadou Diaw

Mamadou is a Senegalese citizen currently serving as the APCD/Health for PC/Senegal. Mamadou has been with PC for 23 years, firstly as APCD/NRM and EE; and starting in 2008, as APCD/Health. Before joining PC, Mamadou worked for 10 years in the field of NRM for USAID and FAO projects. His work included community forestry, agroforestry, community based natural resource management, cartography, land use planning, ecology and land tenure. Mamadou was also an agroforestry trainer for the Senegalese Forest Service.

Mamadou earned a Master’s degree in Forestry Sciences from the University of Florence, Italy, followed by a post university degree in cartography and NRM. Mamadou was also trained in land and tree tenure at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Following his reassignment as APCD/Health, Mamadou undertook short courses in Senegal, France and Israel in nutrition, reproductive health, community health, maternal and child health, and water and health. In 2014, Mamadou earned a Master’s degree in environmental health from the University of Versailles, Paris. Mamadou is currently a PhD candidate from Paris Saclay Human and Social Sciences Doctoral School and has been carrying out a multi-disciplinary research on the factors influencing collective actions in community health.

Kingsley Essomeonu

An SBCC expert with the National Agency for the Control of AIDS in Nigeria.

Joseph Maruti

Joseph Maruti is a Learning Management practitioner with over 10 years of experience designing and implementing pedagogical strategies to achieve set learning outcomes. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from Egerton University and is currently completing a Master of Science in Project Management degree from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. He has a wide range of learning management experience in local and international non-profits as well as in government and private sector institutions. This experience spans building and guiding teams so that they run ICT youth capacity building programs; on-going organizational training and leadership on a Markets, Finance and Information program, preparing and delivering phased incremental training for volunteers in the Health, Education and Community Economic Development sectors. Maruti has been Training Manager at Peace Corps Kenya since 2007. He previously worked at World Corps, Digital Opportunity Trust and PRIDE Africa.