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FOUNDER MEMBERS 

 

Founder members based on the meeting "International Workshop on Taenia solium Cysticercosis/Taeniosis with Special Focus on Eastern & Southern Africa" held in Arusha, Tanzania, Africa on 19 - 22 August, 2002

 

 

No

Name

Address

Phone/fax/e-mail

Area of Expertise

TANZANIA

1.     

Dr Mohammed Amri

World Health Organization

Division of Disease Prevention and Control

P.O. Box 9292

Dar es Salaam

Tanzania

Ph: +255 22 2111718 OR 2113995

Fax: +255 22 211380 OR 2132784

E-mail: amri@who.or.tz

Disease Prevention and Control

2.     

Dr. Michael M. Otaru

Animal Disease Research Institute

Ministry of Water and Livestock Development

Nelson Mandela Road, Temeke

P.O. Box 9254

Dar es Salaam

Tanzania

Ph: +255 22 2863104

Mobile: +255 (0) 744432548

Fax: +255 22 2865312

Email: michaelotaru@hotmail.com

Senior Veterinary Research Officer

3.     

Prof Faustin Paul Lekule

Sokoine University of Agriculture

Department of Animal Science

P.O.Box 3004

Morogoro

Tanzania

Ph: +255 232604576

Fax: +255 232604562

E-mail: lekule@suanet.ac.tz

Associate Professor

Rural Pig Production

4.     

Dr Mathias Boa

Sokoine University of Agriculture

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Department of Microbiology & Parasitology

P.O.Box 3019

Morogoro

Tanzania

 

Ph: +255 23 2604759

Fax: +255 23 2604647

E-mail: workinggroup_2000@yahoo.com

Veterinary Parasitology

5.     

Ms Helena A. Ngowi

Sokoine University of Agriculture

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Department of Microbiology & Parasitology

P.O.Box 3019

Morogoro

Tanzania

Ph: +255 23 2604542

Fax: +255 23 2604647

E-mail: h_ngowi@yahoo.com

Veterinary Parasitology & Public Health

6.     

Prof Ayub A. Kassuku

Sokoine University of Agriculture

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Department of Microbiology & Parasitology

P.o.Box 3019

Morogoro

Tanzania

Ph: +255 23 2604759

Fax: +255 23 2604647

E-mail: kassuku@suanet.ac.tz

 

Veterinary Parasitology

7.     

Dr Ali Alhaji Mzige

Ministry of Health – Samora Machelau

P.O.Box 9083

Dar es Salaam

Tanzania

Ph: +255 741 410 531

Fax: +255 22 2123676

E-mail: amzige@hotmail.com

Director Preventive Services

8.     

Dr Gabriel L. Upunda

Ministry of Health – Samora Machelau

P.O.Box 9083

Dar es Salaam

Tanzania

Ph: +255 741 410 531

Fax: +255 22 2123676

E-mail:

Chief Medical Officer

9.     

Dr Benedict T. Ndawi

Primary Health Care Institute

P.O.Box 235

Iringa

Tanzania

Ph: +255 26 2702143

Fax: +255 26 270 2118

E-mail: phci-iringa@twiga.com

Director PHCI

10.  

Dr Raphael Bagula Kalinga

Vector Borne Diseases Control

Head District Health Services

Ministry of Health

P.O.Box 9083

Dar Es Salaam

Tanzania

Ph: +255 22 2120261 – 7/744594678/741 400230

Fax:

E-mail: Rkalinga2000@yahoo.com

Head of Vector Borne Disease Control

11.  

Prof Charles m. Kihamia

Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences

Institute of Public Health

P.O.Box 65011

Dar Es Salaam

Tanzania

Ph: +255 (0) 744596775

Fax: +255 22 2115761

E-mail: ckihamia@muchs.ac.tz

Professor of Parasitology

12.  

Dr George A. Tigwela

Ministry of Water and Livestock Development

P.O.Box 62

Mbulu

Tanzania

Ph: +255 27 2533027

Fax: +255 27 2533105

E-mail: mbuldrdp@hf.habari.co.tz

District Veterinary Officer

13.  

Dr Gurisha

Ministry of Health

Mbulu

Tanzania

Ph: +255 27 2533040

Fax: +255 27 2112752

E-mail: mbuldrdp@habari.co.tz

District Medical Officer

14.  

Dr Reminiskere C.A. Kweka

Ministry of Water and Livestock Development

Kilimo ll, Veterinary

P.O.Box 9152

Dar Es Salaam

Tanzania

Ph : +255 22 2864306

Fax : +255 2862908

E-mail: DLV@raha.com 

Director for Livestock Development

15.  

Dr Theresa Ponela Mlelwa

Ministry of Water and Livestock Development

P.O.Box 9152

Dar Es Salaam

Ph : +255 22 2864306

Fax : +255 22 2862809

E-mail : dlv@raha.com

 

UGANDA

16.  

Dr R. Winyi Kaboyo

Assistant commissioner

Veterinary Public Health

Ministry of Health

P.O.Box 7272

Kampala

Uganda

Ph: +256 77 595792

Fax: +256 41 231572

E-mail: wkaboyo@hotmail.com

Policy maker, public health, MOH

17.  

Dr Rose Ademun-Okurut

Ministry of Agriculture

Animal Industry & Fisheries

P.O.Box 513

Entebbe

Uganda

Ph: +256 41 320825

Fax: +256 41 320428

Mobile: 077653139

E-mail: pace@africaonline.co.ug

Policy maker, Livestock services, MAAIF

18.  

Dr Emilio Baliki Liociri Ovuga

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Makerere University

Faculty of Medicine

P.O.Box 7072

Kampala

Uganda

Ph: + 256 77 312385

Fax: +256 41 231289

E-mail: ovuga@avu.org

Or eovuga@med.mak.ac.ug

Neurologist

19.  

Dr Narcis Kabatereine

Vector Control Division

Ministry of Health

Bombo Road 15

Kampala

Uganda

Ph: +256 41 251927

Fax: +256 41 346885

E-mail: vcdmoh@imul.com

Senior Entomologist

20.  

Prof John Opuda-Asibo

Director of graduate school & department of veterinary public health

Makerere University

P.O.Box 7062

Kampala

Uganda

Ph: +256 41 530983

Fax: +256 41 533809

E-mail: mupgs@mak.ac.ug

Director Graduate School & Dept. of Vet. Public Health

 

Public health specialist/epidemiologist

21.  

Prof George William Lubega

Head of Department, Veterinary Parasitology and Microbiology

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Makerere University

Makerere Hill Road

P.O.Box 7062

Kampala

Uganda

Ph: +256 41 533002/540293

Mobile: 077 408800

Fax: +256 41 534336

E-mail: glubega@imul.com

Associate Professor

22.  

Dr Margaret Saimo

Department of Veterinary Medicine

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Makerere University

Makerere Hill Road

P.O.Box 7062

Kampala

Uganda

Ph: +256 41 531528/540502

Mobile: 077592736

Fax: +256 41 534336 or 554685

E-mail: msaimo@hotmail.com

Lecturer

KENYA

23.  

Dr Josphat A. Otwelo

Veterinary Research Laboratories

Department of Veterinary Services

Ministry of Agriculture
P. o Kabete, 00625

Nairobi

Kenya

Ph: + 254 2 631289

Mobile: +254 (0) 722350884

Fax: +254 02 631273

E-mail:

Assistant Director of Veterinary Services

24.  

Dr P. B. Gathura

Department of Public Health, Pharmacology & Toxicology
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,

University of Nairobi,
P.O. Box 29053,
Nairobi

Kenya

Mobile: +254 (0) 722828065

Fax: +254 2 631325

Email: phealth@nbnet.co.ke

Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Public Health

25.  

Samuel G. Maingi
 

Ministry of Health –

Division of Communicable & vector borne diseases

P.O. Box 20781

(Cathedral Road-Afya House)
Nairobi

Kenya

Ph: +254 2 717077 ext. 45162

Mobile: 0722340694

Fax: +254 2 720533

Email: gikmaingi@hotmail.com

Public Health Officer/Epidemiology

26.  

Mr Gachego Gitonga

Kenya Association for the Welfare of Epileptics (KAWE)

Wood Ave. of Argwins Kodhek Road
P.O. Box 60790,
00200 Nairobi

Kenya

Ph: +254  2 570885
Fax: +254 2 574871

Email: kawe@iconnect.co.ke

 

Programme Coordinator

27.  

Dr Japhet K. Magambo

African Medical and Research Foundation

Wilson Airport, Langata Road

P.O. Box 30125

00100 Nairobi

Kenya

Ph: +254 2 6046501

Mobile: +254 2 (0) 733793907

Fax: +254 2 606340

Email: eberhardz@amrefke.org

Senior Project Officer Hydatid Disease Control Program

28.  

Dr Ndichu Maingi

Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases

Faculty of Veterinary Science

University of Pretoria

Private Bag X04 Onderstepoort

South Africa

Ph: +27 (0) 12 529 8424

Fax: +27 (0) 12 5298312

E-mail: nmaingi@op.up.ac.za

Post Doctoral Fellow

29.  

Dr Samuel Maina Githigia

Department of Veterinary Pathology

Microbiology & parasitology

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

University of Nairobi

Kabete Campus

P.O.Box 29053

Kangemi

Nairobi

Kenya

Ph: +254 2 630953

Fax: +254 2 631007

E-mail: vetpath@uonbi.ac.ke

 

phealth@nbnet.co.ke

Lecturer & Researcher

30.  

David Campbell

 

 

The Mediae Company

P. O. Box 25308

Nairobi

Kenya

Ph: +254 2 442 660 

Fax: +254 2449 572

E-mail: mediae@africaonline.co.ke

Director

ZAMBIA

31.  

Dr Patric Msoni

Chainama Hills Hospital

P.O.Box 30043

Lusaka

Zambia

Ph: +260 (0) 96 750409

Fax: +260 (0) 9 283824

Or via Dr Isaac K. Phiri

Psychiatrist and Director (Clinical Care)

32.  

Dr Fusaya Yvonne Goma

Ministry of Agriculture and cooperatives

Department of Research and Specialist Services

P.O.Box 50060

Lusaka

Zambia

Ph: +260 1 229470

Fax: +260 1 291190

E-mail: f_goma@yahoo.com

Veterinary officer public health

33.  

Mr Allan R. Mbewe

Ministry of Health

Haile Selassie Avenue

Ndeke House

P.O.Box 30205

Lusaka

Zambia

Ph: +260 253053 /253044

Fax: +260 253344

E-mail: fnyirenda@cboh.zm

Chief Health Inspector

ZIMBABWE

34.  

Dr Samson Mukaratirwa

Dean of Veterinary Science

Faculty of Veterinary Science

Department of Paraclinical veterinary studies

University of Zimbabwe

P.O.Box MP 167

Mount Pleasant

Harare

Zimbabwe

Ph: +263 4 303289

Mobile: +263 91241578

Fax: +263 4 333683

E-mail: smukarati@vet.uz.ac.zw

 

Dean of Veterinary Science

35.  

Dr Wonder Chadambura

Deputy Director of Veterinary Services

Veterinary Services Department

P.O.Box 545

Chinhoyi

Zimbabwe

Ph:

Fax: +263 06722817/25775

E-mail: vphochin@africaonline.co.zw

Deputy Director of Veterinary Services

36.  

Prof Lovemore Gwanzura

Associate Professor

Department of Medical Laboratory Science Medical School

University of Zimbabwe

Mazoe street at Parirenyatwa Hospital

P.O.Box A 178

Avondale

Harare

Zimbabwe

Ph: +263 4 791631

Fax: +263 4 791995

E-mail: lgwanzura@healthnet.zw or dmlt@healthnet.zw

Or

lgwanzura@medsch.uz.ac.zw

Associate Professor

37.  

Dr Charles Muzanemhame Gwavava

Harare Central Hospital

(contact via Mukaratirwa)

Ph: +263 91 348372

Fax: +263 11 803408

E-mail:

Senior Registrar

38.  

Dr Fred Musisi

FAO Subregional Office for Southern & Eastern Africa

11th floor Old Mutual Centre

CNR Third St./Jason Moyo Avenue

P.O.box 3730

Harare

Zimbabwe

Ph: +263 4 253655/57 ext. 222

Fax: +263 4 703496

E-mail: fred.musisi@fao.org

 

Or

Fm141047@africaonline.co..ug

Animal Production & Health Officer

MOZAMBIQUE

39.  

Dr Sonia M.S. Afonso

Head Para Clinical Department

Falculdade de Veterinária

Eduardo Mondlane University

C.P. 3255 Av. De Mocambique 1,5 KM

Maputo

Mozambique

Ph: +258 1 495064

Fax: +258 1 4750631

E-mail: santanafonso@yahoo.co.uk

Head Para Clinical Department

40.  

Dr Fernando Rodrigues

Ministerio da agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural- Direccao Nacinal de Pecuaria

Praca dos Herois

C.P. 1406

Maputo

Mozambique

Ph: +258 1 460050

Fax: +258 1 460479

E-mail: ajudite@map.gov.mz

Or

Fernandorodrigues462@hotmail.com

Veterinarian responsible for zoonoses national level

41.  

Dr Mary Louise Penrith

Laboratory Management Advisor

Instituto Nacional de Investigacao Veterinaria (INIVE)

C.P. 1922

Av. De Mocambique, KM 1,5

Maputo

Mozambique

Ph:+ 258 1 4751701

Fax: +258 1 475172

E-mail: inive@cfmnet.co.mz

or Marylou@teledata.mz

Laboratory Management advisor

Pig production & Health

(South African)

SOUTH AFRICA

42.  

Prof Christopher Charles Appleton

George Campbell Building

School of Life and Environmental Sceince

University of Natal

King George V Avenue

Durban 4014

South Africa

Ph: +27 31 2601187

Fax:+27 31 260 2029
email: appleton@biology.und.ac.za
 

Professor

43.  

Prof Ntutu Andrew Mafojane

University of Pretoria

Faculty of Medicine

Department of Neurology

Kalafong Hospital

Private Bag X396

Pretoria 0001, RSA

South Africa

Ph: +27 12 3731017

Fax: +27 12 373 9031

E-mail: nmafojan@kalafong.up.ac.za

 

Professor

F.C.P. (PAED)

F.C.P. (Neurol)

44.  

Dr Siegried Meyer

Directorate Veterinary Services

Department of Agriculture

Private bag X138

Pretoria 00184

South Africa

Ph: +27 12 3197512

Fax: +27 12 3296892

E-mail: siegfriedm@nda.agric.za

 

Deputy director: Veterinary Hygiene

45.  

Mrs Lynne Michael

Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute

Ou Soutpansweg

Private Bag X05

Onderstepoort 0110

Pretoria

South Africa

Ph: +27 12 5299247

Fax: +27 12 5299434

E-mail: lynne@moon.ovi.ac.za

 

Researcher Parasitology

46.  

Prof Rosina “Tammi” Claudia Krecek

Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases

Faculty of Veterinary Sciences

University of Pretoria

Private Bag X04

Onderstepoort 0110

Pretoria

South Africa

Ph: +27 (0) 827791402

Mobile: +27 827791402

Fax: +27 12 5298312

E-mail: krecek@icon.co.za

 

Veterinary helminthology:Interventions of worm control in resource poor communities.

Coordinator: FAO network for Helminthology in Africa

SENEGAL

47.  

Prof Amadou Gallo Diop

 

 

c/o WHO Headquarter and WHO AFRO + Clinique Neurologique Chu Fann

BP 5712 Dakar

Senegal

Ph: +221 8253678

Fax: +221 8640339

E-mail: agallodiop@netscape.net

Professor of Neurology & Epileptology

BURUNDI

48.  

Dr Georges Nsengiyumva

Ministère de la Santé Publique

Département de la promotion de la santé,l’hygiène et l’assainissement

BP 1820 Bujumbura

Burundi

Ph: +257 21 16 21

Fax: +257 22 91 96

E-mail: gnsengiyumva@yahoo.fr

Epidemiologist, researcher, Director of the department of health promotion

CAMEROON

49.  

Dr Andre Zoli

University of Dschang

P.B. 222

Dschang

Cameroon

Ph: +237 3451436

Fax: +237 345 1436

Email: imtuds@yahoo.fr

 

Associate Professor

NEPAL

50.  

Prof Durga Datt Joshi

National Zoonoses & Food Hygiene Research Centre

Tahachal

G.P.O. Box 1885

Pujamarg, Ward 13, KMC

Kathmandu

Nepal

Ph: +977 1 270667

Fax: +977 1 272694

E-mail: ddjoshi@healthnet.org.np

Director,

Veterinary public health

51.  

Mr Mahendra Maharjan

National Zoonoses & Food Hygiene Research Centre

Tahachal

G.P.O. Box 1885

Pujamarg, Ward 13, KMC

Kathmandu

Nepal

Ph: +977 1270667

Fax: 977 1 272694

E-mail: ddjoshi@healthnet.org.np

Or mahendra_maharjan@yahoo.ca

Research Officer

52.  

Dr Jeetendra Man Shrestha

Zoonoses sub-section

Epidemiology and Disease Control Division

Department of Health Services, Ministry of Health

Ministry of Health

Kathmandu

Nepal

Ph: +977 1 358616

+977 1255796 (office)

Fax: +977 1 262268

E-mail: narendra@who.org.np

Or

jmshrestha@hotmail.com

Zoonoses control officer

INDIA

53.  

Dr Vedantam Rajshekhar

Department of Neurosurgery

Christian Medical College Hospital

Vellore 632004

India

Ph: +91 416 222102

Fax: +91 416 232103 or +91 232035

Email: rajshekhar@cmcvellore.ac.in

Professor

Neurosurgeon

VIETNAM

55.  

Dr Carlo Urbani

World Health Organization

Vectorborne and Other Parasitic Diseases

63, Trang Hung Dao Street

P.O.Box 52,

Hanoi 1000

Vietnam

Ph: +84 4 943 3734

Fax: +84 4 943 3740

Email: urbanic@vtn.wpro.who.int

 

Regional Focus Parasitic Diseases in Western Pacific Region

56.  

Dr Nguyen Quoc Doanh

National Institute of Veterinary Research

86 Truong Chinh – Dong Da

Hanoi

Vietnam

Ph: +84 4 8694505 (O) OR +84 4 868 5300 (H)

Fax: +84 4 869 4082

Email: Para@fpt.vn

or

 doanhkst@yahoo.com

Researcher

Veterinary parasitology

57.  

Dr Nguyen Van De

Deputy Director of Department

Department of Parasitology

National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology (NIMPE)

Luong The Vinh Road

BC 10200 Tuliem

Hanoi

Vietnam

Ph: +84 4 553 2617 (O) OR +84 4 835 8926 (H)

Fax: +84 4 854 3015

Email: ngvde@hn.vnn.vn

 

Deputy Director of Department

Medical parasitology

CHINA

58.  

Prof Zhou Xiaonong

 

National Institute of Parasitic Diseases

Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

207 Rui Jin Er Road

Shanghai 200025

PR China

Tel: (86)21-64738058

Fax: (86)21-64332670

Email: ipdzhouxn@sh163.net

or

zhouxn@hotmail.com

Deputy Director

 

INDONESIA

59.  

Dr Gindo M. Simanjuntak

Health Ecology Research & Development Centre

National Institute of Health Research & Development

Ministry of Health

JI. Percetakan Negara 29

Jakarta

Indonesia

Ph: +62 21 4261088 ext. 268

Fax: +62 21 4243933

Email: gindoms@yahoo.com

Epidemiologist, Senior Researcher

MEXICO

60.  

Dr Ana Flisser

Facultad de Medicina, UNAM

Ciudad Universitaria

San Angel

Mexico 04510

MEXICO

Ph: +52 55 5 623 2466

Fax: +52 55 5 623 2459

Email: flisser@servidor.unam.mx

Research Expert

61.  

Dr Elsa Josefina Sarti Gutierrez, Director

Instituto Nacional de Diagnostico y Referencia Epidemiologicos (INDRE)

“Manuel Martinez Báez”

Prolg. Carpio 470 Col. Sto. Tomás C.P

11340 México D.F.

 

Ph: +(5255) 53411 101

Fax:+(5255) 53413264

Email:

esarti@ptepepan.com.mx

 

General Director

HONDURAS

62.  

Dr Ana Lourdes Sánchez Nù´nes

Department of Community Health Sciences

Brock University

500 Gelnridge Ave.

St. Catharines

Ontario

Canada L2S3A1

Ph: +905 688 5550 ext. 4388

Fax: +905 688 8954

E-mail: ana.sanchez@brocku.ca

Assistant Professor

PERU

63.  

Dr Armando Emiliano Gonzalez Zariquiey

Departamento de Salud Publica

Facultad de Medicine Veterinaria

Universidad San Marcos

Apartado 03-5013, Cdra 29 Circunvalacion s/n

Lima

Peru

Ph: +511 3126088

Fax:+511 4488931

Email: emico@terra.com.pe

 

Professor Veterinary Parasitology

64.  

Dr Hector H. Garcia

Department of Microbiology,

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

and

Department of Transmissible Diseases

Instituto de Ciencias Neurologicas

Lima

Peru

Postal address:

Dr Hector H. Garcia, Av. San Borja norte 834, Dpt. 601, San Borja, Lima 41, Peru. Ph: +511 2241231

 

Ph: + 511 328 7360

Fax: + 511 328 7382

US-based e.fax: (755) 248 9040

e-mail: hgarcia@terra.com.pe

 

Clinician

ECUADOR

65.  

Dr Oscar del Brutto

Department of Neurology

Luis Vernaza Hospital

Guayaquil

Ecuador

Ph: +593 1 28 5790

Fax: +593 4 28 2624

E-mail: odbrutto@telconet.net or

Odbrutto@srv1.telconet.net

Neurology

66.  

Dr Washington Benitez Ortiz

Centro Internacional de Zoonosis (C.I.Z)

30 piso del Edificio del Centro Medico Universitario

Ciudadela Universitaria

Universidad Central del Ecuador

Quito-Ecuador

Ph: +593 2 2904801

Fax: +593 2 2493644

Email: ciz-rectoradouc@andinanet.net

 

Veterinary Immunology Professor

 


 

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