Dr. Adam Abdullahi
Adam Abdullahi, PhD, (Nigeria), is a second-year Takemi fellow. He is currently a Cambridge-Africa Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a junior research faculty at the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria. His current research interests include the dynamics of immune responses to vaccination and exposure to emerging infectious diseases across African populations, including characterizing pre-existing population-level immunological determinants of the less severe outcomes observed during the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Dr. Fareeda Abo-Rass
Fareeda Abo-Rass MSW, PhD, (Palestinian), is a second-year Takemi fellow. She is a social worker and researcher. Currently, she is a postdoctoral fellow at the school for social work at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Dr. Abo-Rass’s research focuses on the psychosocial aspects of mental health among the Palestinian minority in Israel, specifically knowledge and mental health literacy, subjective beliefs, and attitudes, and their relationship to health outcomes and behaviors.…
Dr. Francis Anderson Adzei
Francis Anderson Adzei, PhD (Ghana) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Health Services Management at the University of Ghana Business School. He obtained PhD in Public Administration from the University of Ghana, Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Health Promotion from the University of Bergen, Norway and a Bachelor of Science in Administration (BSc. Admin) in Health Services Administration from the University of Ghana. He also obtained Bachelor of…
Dr. Theodros (Tedi) Getachew
Theodros (Tedi) Getachew, PhD (Ethiopia) holds a PhD in Public Health focusing on quality of care provided for sick child in the context of integrated community case management. He has a biostatistics and medical laboratory background with an experience of the Ethiopian health care system. The focus of his research has been generating evidence across the health system and reproductive health area, this has included evaluation of program, interventions, and…
Dr. Daisuke Kato
Daisuke Kato, MD, PhD (Japan) is a family physician and holds a PhD in medicine. He serves as a part-time lecturer in the Department of Family Medicine at Mie University Graduate School of Medicine and as a project researcher at the Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University. His research focuses on social isolation and its impact on health, aiming to find effective interventions to mitigate these effects. In his…
Dr. Anya Vieira Meyer
Anya P.G.F. Vieira Meyer, MD, (Brazil) is a Senior Researcher at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Ceará and Professor at the Centro Universitário Christus. She graduated in Dentistry from the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) in 1998, holds a PhD (2005) from the University of Toronto (UofT) and an MSC (2000) from the University of London (UL). She was a visiting scholar at the University of California Berkeley in 2015/2016, where…
Dr. Yoshitaka Nishikawa
Yoshitaka Nishikawa, MD, PhD (Japan) is an epidemiologist and Assistant Professor at the Kyoto University School of Public Health. Based in Japan, he has practiced medicine as a physician and conducted research on clinical oncology and gastroenterology. Leveraging his expertise, he has been bridging clinical oncology, gastroenterology and public health in his research. For more than ten years, he has worked as a physician in the disaster-affected area of Fukushima,…
Dr. Camila Volij
Camila Volij, MD (Argentia) is a physician, graduated from the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine (UBA) in 2015. She completed her residency training program at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires (HIBA), specializing in Family Medicine in 2019. Following this, she pursued a research fellowship in family medicine at HIBA in 2021, simultaneously completing a Master’s in Clinical Effectiveness at IECS/UBA. Currently, she works as a family doctor…
Dr. Jie (Jane) Zhao
Jie (Jane) Zhao, MD, PhD (Hong Kong) is currently an Assistant Professor at School of Public Health, the University of Hong Kong. With trainings in medical science, nutrition and epidemiology, her broad research interest is to understand the aetiology of non-communicable chronic diseases, as well as identifying modifiable targets for prevention and treatment of chronic diseases. Dr. Zhao has been interested in the effect of endocrine factors in chronic diseases,…