Mercy Mumo
Mercy is a seasoned communications specialist from Kenya with over 15 years of experience in development, business, corporate, and behavior change communication.
Moses Adriko
Moses’ career has provided him with invaluable knowledge related to work and research on control and elimination of Neglected Tropical Disease and Program Management for over 15years across Uganda, Kenya and Namibia. His expertise has made him serve on the GSA Ambassador Programme for Uganda, a member of the WHO-NTD review group for the Operationalization […]
Lisa Reigl
Lisa Reigl studied European Public Health, International Health, and Social Policy in Maastricht and Bremen. After first professional experiences at the German Bundestag, GIZ, and the GVK Emergency Management Research Institute (Hyderabad, India), she worked as a scientific project manager at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, including a two-year consultancy assignment […]
Paul Njige
Paul Njige is the founder of My Medics software application in Tanzania & Afya forum, an online health discussion platform.
Maximilian Nsubuga
Maximilian Nsubuga is a Ugandan working with Ministry of Health under Kazo District Local Government. He is a passionate Medical Entomologist/Vector Control Officer working to beat NTDs and Vector-borne diseases in his community and country at large.
Adebiyi Adeniran
Adebiyi Adeniran is a molecular entomo-parasitologist and currently an NTD Technical Advisor at RTI International. He has over a decade of research and program implementation experience on PC-NTDs in 15 Sub-Saharan African countries and Mexico. Dr Adebiyi is a member global and national technical advisory groups and has published in leading scientific journals. He is […]
Breanna Wodnik
Breanna Wodnik is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. Her research focuses on the interplay between organizational learning and organizational compassion. She has previously led qualitative case study research on NTD programming.
Molly Brady
Molly is a Senior LF Advisor at RTI International on USAID’s Act to End NTDs | East project, where she provides technical assistance to ministries of health on MDA strengthening, disease-specific survey implementation, and preparing for elimination. She assists in developing global resources such as the GPELF M&E manual and the WHO never treated toolkit.
Exploring barriers to accessing treatment for Lymphatic Filariasis through a socio-ecological lens in Buvuma and Napak districts, Uganda.
Background The World Health Organization launched the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis in 2000, which aimed at eradicating the disease by 2030. This goal depends on community mass drug administration and essential care. Despite these efforts, many rural communities still face untreated lymphatic filariasis and lack access to treatment and self-management. Using a socioecological […]
Nudge strategies for behavior-based prevention and control of neglected tropical diseases: A scoping review and ethical assessment
Background Nudging, a strategy that uses subtle stimuli to direct people’s behavior, has recently been included as an effective and low-cost behavior change strategy in low- and middle- income countries (LMIC), targeting behavior-based prevention and control of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The present scoping review aims to provide a timely overview of how nudge interventions […]
