Executive Committee

Judy N. Khanyola is a Registered Nurse and is currently the Chair of the Center for Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. Judy’s work focuses on equipping the nursing and midwifery profession in Africa to do what it is they were educated and trained to do as qualified health professionals. Previously, she led the strengthening of pre and in-service education at 22 schools of nursing and midwifery in six countries in Africa through ICAP at Columbia University as the Regional Nursing Advisor for Africa. Judy was from 2018 to 2021, the Nursing Now Africa Region Representative where she contributed to the campaign to raise the status and profile of nurses in Africa. Judy serves on the boards of several African convening bodies; AFREhealth, for health professionals’ education, research, and service delivery; AfriPEN, for interprofessional education and collaborative practice and AfroPHC for primary health care. Judy has made it her mission to ensure that the frontline healthcare that most populations in Africa receive and which is delivered by nurses and midwives is dignified, expert and compassionate; and that this care focuses on rural populations. Judy earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Eastern Africa, her Masters in Advancing Healthcare Practice from the University of Manchester and her Postgraduate Certificate in Nursing Leadership from Duke University. She was awarded the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care 2019 Global HIV Award for her work in HIV in Africa. Judy is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing

Dr. Mubuuke Gonzaga, PhD, is a Senior Faculty member in the Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, where he is also the Vice Chairperson of the School of Medicine Research Ethics Committee and Higher Degrees Committee. He specializes in breast imaging with specialist training in medical education.

Dr. Mubuuke is also a Fogarty Fellow of Bioethics, which he obtained from Johns Hopkins University, USA, as well as a FAIMER Fellow in medical education. He is currently a global Faculty member at the Eastern Africa FAIMER Regional Institute and a project advisor at the International FAIMER Institute in Philadelphia, USA. He is the current Lead of the Eastern Africa AFREhealth Regional Chapter and has previously served as the Chairperson of the AFREhealth Health Professions Education Research Technical Working Group. He is a member of the AFREhealth Skills Development and Training Sub-Committee, and has led key initiatives within AFREhealth, including the development of the James Hakim Leadership Development Program, for which he obtained a CUGH-Fogarty leadership award, and the AFREhealth Pedagogy training program that equips faculty with educational skills. He was part of the team that developed the AFREhealth research agenda.

Dr. Mubuuke has also actively participated in writing grants with AFREhealth. He is the immediate past Chairperson of the Education Committee of the Consortium of Universities in Global Health (CUGH). He is an active researcher in both radiology and medical education with over 100 publications to his name. He is also an Associate Editor of the African Journal of Health Professions Education, a Senior Editor with BMC Medical Education and PLOS ONE, and a reviewer with Medical Education, Education for Health, Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, British Journal of Radiology, and many others. His research interests are in breast radiology, gynaecological/obstetrical ultrasound and medical education. Dr. Mubuuke has supervised over 15 PhD and over 40 Masters students and has been an external examiner for several universities. He has been a consultant in curriculum development, capacity building, and medical education. Dr. Mubuuke actively participated in writing funded grants. Previously, he was part of the implementation team for the MEPI-ESAU grant as well as a Co-Investigator on the HEPI grant, both of which aimed to strengthen health professions training in Africa.

Prof Nyasulu is a Professor of Epidemiology at Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences. He is Executive Head of the Department of Global Health, a Member of the American College of Epidemiology and an Honorary Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. His main research has focused on infectious diseases, health risks of climate change, One Health, and post COVID-19 syndrome in low- and middle-income countries.

He holds a PhD in Epidemiology and a Master of Science in Medicine in the field of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, obtained from the School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand. He also has a Postgraduate Diploma in Epidemiology obtained from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London; Advanced Diploma in Dermato-venereology from the University of Dar es Salaam; and Diploma in Clinical Medicine, College of Health Sciences in Malawi.

He has been teaching Epidemiology and Public Health at the undergraduate and postgraduate for close to two decades.

Prof Nyasulu is a rated Scientist and has over 200 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. He has supervised and graduated over 75 postgraduate students (Honours/Masters/PhD). He has an extensive network of research collaborations both locally and internationally. Prof Nyasulu is a peer reviewer for many journals and serves on the Editorial Board of the BMC Infectious Diseases Journal, the Journal of Africa Public Health and the Malawi Medical Journal. He is the Founding Chief Editor of the African Journal of Epidemiology. His publication history can be accessed at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=X2JsbpQAAAAJ&hl=e

Kwete Minga Mineze est administrateur de recherche en santé publique et coordonnateur de projets basé en République Démocratique du Congo. Titulaire d’une licence en interprétation des langues de l’Université Pédagogique Nationale (UPN) de Kinshasa, il est actuellement en doctorant à la même institution, où il exerce également en qualité de chargé de cours. Impliqué dans la recherche en santé publique depuis plusieurs années, il a contribué à des études d’envergure continentale, notamment la riposte contre la COVID-19, l’étude PROVE sur l’efficacité des vaccins anti-COVID-19 (Africa CDC/Mastercard Foundation/IDI), l’étude sur les facteurs socioécologiques du Mpox (Africa CDC/INRB/IDI/AFREhealth) en RDC et en République du Congo, ainsi qu’aux projets Save Lives and Livelihoods (SLL) Phase I et Phase II-Pharmacovigilance.

Il assume actuellement la fonction de coordonnateur national du projet SLL Phase II-Pharmacovigilance pour la RDC, en liaison avec le CNPV, l’ACOREP, l’INRB et l’IDI/Université Makerere. Membre actif d’AFREhealth, il a été paneliste au 7ème Symposium de l’organisation (Nairobi, 2024), participe aux réunions du Groupe de Travail Suivi et Évaluation, a suivi la Formation Pédagogique pour les Enseignants des Professions de Santé et prend part aux briefings en urgence sanitaire organisés par AFREhealth. Il assure par ailleurs la co supervision du cours certifiant en ligne de lutte antitabac de l’Université Makerere. Sa formation en gouvernance comprend le programme PRIMER en finance et gestion des subventions (IDI, 2025) ainsi que plusieurs cursus de l’Infectious Disease Institute. Il maîtrise le français, l’anglais, le lingala, le swahili et le tshiluba.

Prof Gugu Mchunu is an Executive Dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Durban University of Technology (DUT), in South Africa, a position she assumed on the 1st of June 2021. Prior to that she was the Head of the Nursing Discipline at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), School of Nursing and Public Health (College of Health Sciences). She has previously worked as the Executive Director of the Durban Chamber Foundation (part of Durban Chamber of Commerce), a Senior Research Specialist and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Human Research Council (HSRC).

She is a Nurse and Midwife, and holds a Bachelor of Social Science in Nursing, Masters in Nursing and a PhD in Nursing Prof Mchunu has more than 25 years’ experience in the academic sector, with the following nursing specialization - (a) Community Health Nursing (b) Nursing Education, (c) Health Services Management (d) Primary Care (e) Occupational Health (f) Project Monitoring and Evaluation and (g)Policy guidelines development. Prof Mchunu is an International Ford Foundation Alumna and completed her PhD through a sandwich programme, between the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, USA.

Nelson K. Sewankambo MBChB, MSc, M.MED, FRCP, LLD (HC) is a Professor Emeritus, a former Dean of Makerere University Medical School, Uganda and a past Principal Makerere University College of Health Sciences. He is a member of the AFREhealth Governing Council. He was Chair of the MEPI Council in 2013 which culminated into AFREhealth. During his academic career, he facilitated the establishment of many collaborations between Makerere University and institutions in both high and low or middle-income countries. He has a wide experience as a Principal Investigator and investigator on several capacity-building projects of health professionals that are externally funded including a MEPI consortium of Ugandan Universities that jointly addressed the country’s health workforce education needs; NURTURE: Research training and mentoring program for career development of junior and mid-level faculty at Makerere; Training Health Researchers into Vocational Education in East Africa (THRiVE) consortium of seven African institutions and two UK universities.  He steered the development of an East African effort that led to an internationally acclaimed institutional brokerage mechanism for linking research to policy and action, “The REACH Policy Initiative” under the East African Community.

He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London; an Honorary Doctorate of Letters Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health; a Grand Silver Medal from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden; a Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa from McMaster University, and is Honorary Fellow of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is an external affiliate of the US National Institute of Medicine, and a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.