Welcome New VALIDATE Members - March 2026

We are also pleased to welcome 76 new VALIDATE members to the Network. Our community now includes 1,011 members across 79 countries and 419 institutes.

Find details of our new members here: check out their profiles — and you might just spot your next collaboration.

Affiliates

• Mr Jeremy Kwame Adu Aboagye, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

• Miss Ireoluwa Favour Adegbenro, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

• Dr Haroon Afridi, Khyber Medical College Peshawar, Pakistan

• Mr Olayinka Olawale Asafa, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

• Dr Faez Awad, Omar Al-Mukhtar University, Libya

• Mr Melaku Tafese Awulachew, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Ethiopia

• Prof Mohammad Noor Amal Azmai, University of Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

• Ms Kanwal Batool, National Institute of Health, Pakistan

• Dr Anett Anselmo Belo, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique

• Dr Olivia Victoria Rosie Bird, University of Oxford, UK

• Dr Lívia Paula Freire Bonfim, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

• Dr Jessica Burns, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

• Mr Archie Matuguinas Cabachete, Mahidol University, Thailand

• Ms Raquel Soares Bandeira Câmara, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

• Ms Joan Amban Chick, Covenant University, Nigeria

• Mr Devon Darley, University of Oxford, UK

• Ms Rafaela Donadoni De Souza, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

• Mr Getu Diriba, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Ethiopia

• Dr Jean-Yves Ekra, Peleforo Gon Coulibaly University, Côte d'Ivoire

• Mr Louis Odinakaose Ezediuno, University of Africa, Nigeria

• Miss Karolina Oliveira de Mello Falcão, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

• Ms Mayerly Giraldo Avila, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

• Dr Angela Paul Gwakisa, Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania

• Asst Prof Su Myat Han, Nagasaki University, Japan

• Ms Jacklyn Luna Hyder, UCL, UK

• Dr Muhammad Idrees, University of Ottawa, Canada

• Dr Chinedu Anthony Iwu, Imo State University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria

• Dr Kein Kamwanga Kalume, MRC The Gambia at LSHTM, Gambia

• Dr Julia Kutschenreuter, City St George’s, University of London, UK

• Mr Vincent Kibet Langat, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya

• Ms Tamia Kelly Jasmyn Lawrence, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

• Mr Anifrid Thomson Mahenge, NIMR-MMRC, Tanzania

• Mr Mphatso Mailboy, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Programme, Malawi

• Prof Amirul Islam Mallick, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER-K), India

• Mr Steve Mbewe, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Programme, Malawi

• Mr Difery Minadzi, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Ghana

• Mr Jonathan Lewis Mnkai, NIMR-MMRC, Tanzania

• Mr Hussein Muhammed, Prince Abubakar Audu University, Nigeria

• Miss Mya Charlotte Murphy, University of Strathclyde, UK

• Mr Nduduzo Bhekokuhle Ndlovu, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

• Dr Rodrigue Akoue Ngape, University of Ghana, Ghana

• Ms Rabiat I Ojeifo, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

• Asst Prof Diriba Dereje Olana, Jimma University, Ethiopia

• Mr Mateo Alejandro Peña-Morales, CIDEIM, Colombia

• Mr Michael James Perret, University of Exeter, UK

• Dr Koukeo Phommasone, Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Laos

• Mr Breno Luiz Pimenta, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

• Dr Benedict Porter, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), UK

• Ms Arimanitra RAZAFIMAHEFA, Pasteur Institute of Madagascar, Madagascar

• Mr Paulo Henrique Santana Silveira, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

• Mr Dilan Stif Sierra, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

• Ms Clara Soares de Souza, Instituto Butantan; Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

• Miss Hannah Nonhlanhla Southwood, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

• Ms Dobally Touray, MRC The Gambia at LSHTM, Gambia

• Mr Marcus Williamson, University of Oxford, UK

Associates

• Dr Shima Mohammed AhmedAlgalaa Abdulgader, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

• Ms Maria del Mar Castro Noriega, CIDEIM, Germany; Colombia

• Dr Jéssica Brandão Dos Santos, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Brazil

• Dr Alex Issamu Kanno, Instituto Butantan, Brazil

• Dr Laura Klepp, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Argentina

• Dr Pablo Maldonado, Colorado State University, USA

• Dr Lázaro Moreira Marques-Neto, Instituto Butantan, Brazil

• Dr Suventha Moodley, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

• Dr Remous Ocloo, TASK Applied Sciences, South Africa

• Dr Anucha Preechanuku, Mahidol University, Thailand

• Dr Antonia Morita Iswari Saktiawati, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

• Asst Prof Nancy Liliana Tateosian, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina

• Dr Isabella Forasteiro Tavares, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Brazil

• Dr Monalisa Martins Trentini, Instituto Butantan, Brazil

• Dr Rouxjeane Venter, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

• Dr Tsehaynesh Lema Yetabetu, Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), Ethiopia

Investigators

• Prof Taane Gregory Clark, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK

• Assoc Prof Mohlopheni Jackson Marakalala, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

• Prof Kieran Meade, University College Dublin, Ireland

• Prof Rafael C. Prados-Rosales, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

• Dr Bianca Schneider, Research Center Borstel – Leibniz Lung Center, Germany