Zamanzima Mazibuko, editor of this volume, is the Senior Researcher in the Knowledge Economy and Scientific Advancement Faculty at The Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) in Johannesburg, South Africa. She obtained her MSc (Med) in Pharmaceutics cum laude and has published on nano-enabled drug delivery systems.
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi is a lecturer in the Department of History and Political Studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University
of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. His research focus is on evolutions in health, public health and health policy, environment, policy in science and technology, traditional and integrative medicine research, as well as social and political development of Africa.
Miriam Di Paola is a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand and a Research Fellow at the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. She has participated in international research projects and authored several publications on the South African labour market, labour migration, and on the contribution of nurses to public health.
Kenneth Juma is a researcher at the African Population and Health Research Centre, Kenya. Kenneth is a doctoral student in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Makerere University, Uganda. He holds an Erasmus Master in Public Health in Disaster Settings from the University of Oviedo and Catholic University of Louvain, an MSc in Epidemiology, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Nairobi.
Pamela Juma works as a health systems and policy research and capacity building consultant. Pamela holds a Master’s in Community Health and Development, and a PhD in Nursing with a focus on Health Systems and Policy from the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Bill Kinsey holds three postgraduate degrees from Stanford University, including a PhD from Stanford’s Food Research Institute. He has done extensive fieldwork on southern Africa, particularly in Zimbabwe. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the African Studies Centre at Leiden University in The Netherlands.
Farai D. Madzimbamuto is an anaesthesiologist and associate professor at the University of Zimbabwe. Prof. Madzimbamuto is the Chair of Department of Health Professions Education and a founding Chair of the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights.
Kaka Mudambo is a malariologist and public health specialist employed as the Focal Point/Regional Co-ordinator of the RBM Partnership to End Malaria for East, Central, Southern and West Africa. Brigadier General (Dr) Mudambo is also the regional co-ordinator of the SADC 16 Member States Military Health Services (MHS), of which he was a founder member, and responsible for all Military Health programmes. He is a board member of the Malaria Elimination Eight (E8) and Chairperson of the E8 Board oversight committee (OC).
Steven Mufamadi is the founder and managing director of Nabio Consulting (Pty) Ltd, a start-up company that provides consulting services on nanotechnology, biotechnology, and pharmaceutics, since 2015. His PhD is in Pharmaceutics from Wits University, Johannesburg.
Sunanda Ray is a medical doctor and public health physician. She is also a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (UK) and is currently employed by the Department of Community Medicine, University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe. Dr Ray has 35 years’ experience of working in public health in Zimbabwe, Botswana and England and as an activist for social justice in health.
David Sanders is Emeritus Professor and founding Director of the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, and is a paediatrician qualified in Public Health. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Cape Town for his contribution to the global policy of Primary Health Care. He is a founder and currently Global Co-chair of Peoples Health Movement.
Nathaniel Umukoro is senior lecturer and head of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Edo University, Iyamho, Nigeria. He obtained a BSci degree from the University of Benin before proceeding to the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he obtained MSc, MA, and DPhil degrees.
Beth Vale is an independent researcher and writer. Her research interests span youth sex and body politics, nocturnal cities, health and illness, and the everyday production of sociality, power and privilege in South African society. Dr Vale holds a DPhil in Social Policy and Intervention from Oxford University, an MA in Sociology from the University of Cape Town, and a BA Honours in Philosophy and Political Studies from Rhodes University.
Alex van den Heever presently holds the Chair of Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is an adjunct professor and has a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Cape Town. He has published extensively in the field of health policy, the implementation and review of health public private partnerships, and the regulation of health systems.
Gerald Yonga is the President of the NCD Alliance in East Africa and a Visiting Professor at the NCD Research Thematic Unit, School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, Kenya. He is founder chair of NCD Alliance Kenya, East Africa NCD Alliance and Africa NCD Alliances Network, and is a board member of the NCD Alliance (Global).