Welcoming New Members - March 2025
We are very excited to welcome 43 New members to the VALIDATE Community, including our first member from Iraq! - we now boast over 860 members in over 370 institutions across 78 countries.
New Affiliates
- Miss Myah Ali, University of Birmingham, UK
- Ms Benedikta Alverin, Respiratory Programmatic Implementation and Research Institute (RPRI), Indonesia
- Ms Yaa Yeboaa Asare, University of Ghana, Ghana
- Mr Diego Aznar, Fundació Institut Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP), Spain
- Mr Francisco Andres Bohórquez Martinez, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
- Ms Kara Bruwer, University of the Free State, South Africa
- Dr Omar Domínguez Acosta, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Mexico City), Mexico
- Dr Lucy Catherine Garner, University of Oxford, UK
- Dr Joyeta Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata, India
- Mr Michael Mohsen Kamel Girgis, Mansoura University, Egypt
- Mr Ashabul Islam, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Bangladesh
- Dr Helan Saman Jameel, University of Duhok, Iraq
- Mr Raphael Kamng'ona, MRC The Gambia at LSHTM, Gambia
- Ms Gamuchirai Mary Kavhumbura, Charles River Medical Group, Zimbabwe
- Ms Tristen Lourens, University of the Free State, South Africa
- Dr Mariano Nicolás Maio, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas en Retrovirus y SIDA (INBIRS), Argentina
- Mr Salim Suleiman Mwakidzuga, Vision Imaging and Medical Center, Kenya
- Ms Welile Vumile Nwamba, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Ms Jomkwan Ongarj, University of Oxford, UK
- Dr Nicholas McDermott Provine, University of Oxford, UK
- Ms Doviyatim Rianingsih, Indonesia Open University, Indonesia
- Mr Amadou Samba, Independent (no stated organisation), Senegal
- Mr Biswash Sapkota, Madan Bhandari Academy of Health Sciences, Nepal
- Ms Tayla Juliet Smith, UCL and Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), UK and South Africa
- Ms Freya Esther Stiff, University of Oxford, UK
- Ms Janet Zambezi, MRC The Gambia at LSHTM, Gambia
New Associates
- Dr Lucy Caitriona Kiernan Bell, UCL, UK
- Dr Rajarshi Bhattacharya, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), India
- Dr Mirna Burciaga Flores, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
- Dr Antônio Márcio Santana Fernandes, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil
- Dr Olga Lucia Fernández, Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médicas (CIDEIM), Colombia
- Dr Patricia Grace, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Dr Sabella Jelimo Kiprono, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya
- Dr Vasti Lozano-Ordaz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
- Dr Bongani Motaung, South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), South Africa
- Prof Renée Onnainty, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
- Dr Paulo Ranaivomanana, Pasteur Institute of Madagascar, Madagascar
- Dr Mathulo Mathabiso Shauli, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa
- Dr Aminu Shittu, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria
- Dr Kudzanai Ian Tapfuma, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Dr Fregenet Tesfaye Tegegn, Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), Ethiopia
New Investigators
- Prof Daniela Ferreira, University of Oxford and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), UK
- Dr Benjamin Schumann, Imperial College London (ICL), UK
Published - 3 March 2025
