Abdul Rashid

Ghanaian based in The Gambia. Media and Communication practitioner. Director of Curious Eye Media Foundation Ghana; a media advocacy and capacity building organization based in Africa.

Usman Sabo Usman

Usman Sabo Usman is a resourceful behavior change communication and social mobilization expert, program designer, Radio/TV producer and script writer. Usman has served as consultant script writer and script editor for BBC World Service Trust (Now BBC Media Action Nigeria). He joined Family Health International (Now FHI 360) as Strategic Behavior Change Communication Officer under the USAID/GHAIN Project and was reappointed as Technical Officer (Prevention and Mitigation) under FHI 360/SIDHAS Project. He currently work as Behavior Change Communication Advisor for FHI 360/Malaria Action Program for States a PMI supported project in Nigeria. Usman has attended Leadership in Strategic Health Communication (LSHC) Course by JHSPH/CCPN and Executive Masters Certificate in Project Management by British School of Project Management (BSPM-UK).

Uchechi Okonmah

I am a Public Health Communications/Promotions Specialist…I am passionate about what i do.

Trish Davis

I am currently a Program Officer with the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP).

Prior to joining CCP, I managed public relations and outreach coordination for one of the first U.S. residential substance-abuse treatment centers for women and their children. In Southern Africa, I worked with national and district education partners to pilot a radio program that increased access to basic education for rural children and raised national awareness around HIV/AIDS prevention and care. I have also worked as a reporter: for the largest daily newspaper in Connecticut and for a mid-sized daily in southwest Florida, chronicling issues around growth and development, health, local politics, education and crime.

Thoko Mwapasa

Thoko Mwapasa is Deputy Chief of Party for One Community, an HIV/AIDS combination prevention program in Malawi, under the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP). She has been working in HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support programs for the past 15 years, using SBCC using mass and community media approaches. She has worked with and directly supported people living with HIV and other vulnerable populations like women, children and youth. She also has experience in food and nutrition as well as water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programs. She is passionate about working with adolescent girls and young women, advocating to reduce gender inequalities that increase their vulnerability to HIV, and enabling them to protect themselves against infection. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Counseling Psychology and a Masters degree in Public Health (MPH).