Teaching and Learning

Francisco Oviedo Gomez

Co-Chair

Dr Francisco Javier Oviedo Gomez is a doctor in Medicine and a Master of Public Health by the University of Costa Rica, alumnus from the Program of Leaders in International Health of the Pan-American Health Organization. He has worked for the Ministry of Health of Costa Rica since 2004 in different positions (Project Coordinator, Local Health Department Director, Senior Advisor to the Minister’s Office) working on projects such as Evaluation of the Performance of the National Primary Health Care System. He has been a teacher at several universities on the subjects of public health, epidemiology and health services management. He has also collaborated with international organizations such as the WHO, the International Federation of Medical Students Associations and the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp.

Gina Teddy

Co-Chair

Gina Teddy is the founder and currently Acting Director of the Centre for Health Systems and Policy Research (CHESPOR) and a lecturer at the School of Public Service and Governance at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). She coordinates HPSR courses and provides capacity development training that targets health managers at GIMPA and the University of the Western Cape School of Public Health Winter School in South Africa. Gina completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Cape Town’s Health Policy and Systems Division two years after completing her PhD at the University of York, UK. Her subject and research areas are: HPSR, governance and leadership, health management and capacity building, policy analysis and implementation science, medical sociology, mixed methods, health financing and inter-sectoral action and multi-disciplinarity.

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Ayat Abu-Agla

Coordinator

Ayat Abu-Agla is a Public Health Specialist, with a MBBS, MPH, Medical Doctorate in Community Medicine and a MFPH-RCP UK. Based at the Centre for Global Health at Trinity College Dublin, she has over a decade of diverse work experience in LMICs through positions in health care, academia and professional associations. She lectures and researches in the areas of global health, reproductive health, implementation science, health systems (HS) and health workforce (HWF) in post-conflict settings and LMICs. She provides technical support to the WHO-led secretariat for the joint OECD ILO and WHO Working for Health Programme, with HS/HWF operations in 14 LMICs.

Collaboration for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa (CHEPSAA)

Champion for the Africa Region

The Collaboration for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa (CHEPSAA) was founded in 2011 by seven African and four European universities. CHEPSAA is dedicated to supporting health policy and systems teaching in African and other developing countries. CHEPSAA is best known for its open access, master’s-level courses – Introduction to Complex Health Systems, Introduction to Health Policy and Systems Research, and Understanding and Analyzing Health Policy – which have been used in countries across the world. Additionally, CHEPSAA has produced other important resources, such as a guide to curriculum design, and continues to support networking, knowledge acquisition and ideas sharing through its regular teaching-related blogs. CHEPSAA is currently coordinated by Ermin Erasmus and you can get in touch through the CHEPSAA website.

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Diana Elizabeth Cuervo-Diaz

Champion for the Region of the Americas

Dr Cuervo is a Physician Public Health PhD. She works as a principal physician at the National Disability Rating Board in Colombia (Ministry of Work).; she is also professor in themes of social security, disability and labour risk at the Faculty of Law at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Colombia. She previously worked in the private insurance sector as Occupational Physician and Director of Disability Pensions and Labour Risk Compensations for 15 years. Dr Cuervo's current interest is being a social actor to encourage the building of public policy in work disability prevention in Colombia. She also is interested in health systems research. She is a member of ICOH (Internacional Commission on Occupational Health) and HSG, and the Board of the Colombian Public Health Association.

Taufique Joarder

Champion for the South-East Asia Region

Dr Taufique Joarder MBBS, MPH, DrPH is serving as the Research Director of FHI 360 in Bangladesh. He completed his Doctorate in Public Health from the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and has been involved as an Associated Faculty in its Health Systems Program. He has been teaching Health Systems Management, along with other public health courses, as an Adjunct Faculty at the James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh. He teaches in several short courses on HPSR and is currently in the process of developing a course on leadership and strategic management for health systems strengthening. His doctoral dissertation, titled ‘Understanding and Measuring Responsiveness of Human Resources for Health (HRH) in Rural Bangladesh’, is one of the pioneering studies on HRH responsiveness and performance. His areas of interest include health policy, health systems, human resources for health, medical anthropology, mixed methods research, implementation research, and psychometrics.

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Fatou Kebe

Champion for the African Region

Fatou Kebe is a sociologist, holding a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA). She has extensive research and consulting experience and has participated in several evaluation processes. Themes that Fatou has worked on include poverty, food security, youth sexuality, access to health care and systems, and child-focused nutrition and social transfers (NETS). She is co-author of a book on this theme 'Children and Street Children in Dakar' (published by SAMU Social) and also co-author of the scientific article 'Producing Emotionally Sensed Knowledge'. Fatou researches responses to death with colleagues from the University of Reading and Liège. She is a specialist in both qualitative and quantitative surveys with a good command of several quantitative and qualitative data capture and processing software. Fatou has experience with disaster preparedness and response through health process (planning and contingency planning process).

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Surendra Kumar Mishra

Champion for the South-East Asia Region

Dr Surendra Kumar Mishra, with a double post-graduate in social sciences and doctorate in culture studies, has more than 40 years of field experience in social and behavioral sciences research and communication. He served for nearly 20 years in academic institutions and six years in Europe as a Senior Fellow at UNESCO. He has led several civil society initiatives in health Innovation, research and evaluation, funded by major national and international donor agencies for more than two decades in three continents viz. Asia, Africa and Europe. He has authored three books and published over 65 research articles in national and international journals. Until 2009, he was teaching and training the post-graduate students of the Public Health Faculty at Jimma University, Ethiopia. Since 2010, he has been mentoring many civil society organizations and academic institutions in South Asia and East Africa on social determinants of health in achieving the set targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Besides all these, he is engaged in several advocacy activities and policy initiatives at both local and regional levels as well as teaching in Indian universities as a visiting professor.

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Tara Tancred

Champion for the European Region

Tara is an Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Senior Research Associate at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. She has more than six years of experience working on interventions with the aim of health system strengthening and research capacity strengthening. She has an interest in interventions that aim to increase local capacity to improve the quality of maternal and newborn health, through action at the community, health facility, and district levels. She participated in the 2014 study coordinated by the Teaching and Learning TWG, which mapped HPSR teaching globally. She is keen to find avenues for collaboration across regions for improved teaching and learning of HPSR.

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