About Us

Dr. Neema Kaseje

Paediatric Surgeon 

Dr. Kaseje is a paediatric surgeon committed to global health equity and improving access to paediatric surgical care in resource-limited settings. She has joint appointments with Doctors without Borders and University Hospitals Geneva. Most recently, she has implemented a capacity building programme for paediatric surgical care provision in Haiti in partnership with Hospital Universitaire Mirebalais, a Partners in Health hospital. Furthermore, she successfully implemented a pilot project training Community Health Workers to identify and refer paediatric surgical cases to the formal health system in Western Kenya.

 

Concurrently, she performed hospital assessments to evaluate the capacity to deliver safe paediatric surgical care in Western Kenya. From a global perspective, she is actively involved in the Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery, and the Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care at the World Health Organization (WHO).

 

She is very active in research and was awarded the NaWuchs price by the Swiss Society for Paediatric Surgery. She is currently leading a collaborative surgical project aiming to bring surgical care closer to rural communities in Nicaragua. She was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2017.

 

 

 

Nadi Nina Kaonga, MHS MS

MD Candidate

Nadi Nina Kaonga, MHS MS, is an Independent Technical Advisor in Digital Health and Health Systems Strengthening who is currently serving as the Technology Advisor to citiesRISE – a global collaborative movement that seeks to transform mental health. She has worked extensively in Malawi – where her family is from – as well as in over a dozen other locations throughout the world, managing, implementing and evaluating projects that have included the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS, emergency medical response and digital health. She has served as a consultant to organizations including the United Nations Foundation, UNICEF, Malaria No More and the Global Development Incubator, and more recently had been the Senior Program Manager and Senior Technical Advisor / interim Deputy Director at HealthEnabled. She is a graduate of Columbia University, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Tufts University Sackler Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Doctor of Medicine (MD) Program at the Tufts University School of Medicine.

 

 

 

Dr. Hetal Gohil (MBChB)

Medical Doctor
I was born and live in Mombasa, Kenya.

I am currently pursuing Masters in Paediatric Surgery at the University of Nairobi, Kenya.

My interest in making surgery more accessible and affordable to everyone stems from experiencing, through working for the government sector, the issues faced by the rural population in my country. For example, unavailability and unaffordability of diagnostic tests, and lack of transport facilities and expertise for timely and appropriate management.

 

 

 

Dr. Nana Adofo-Ansong

Medical Doctor 

As a medical doctor, born in Ghana and raised in South Africa, my experiences on the African continent have been vital in shaping my understanding of Global Health.  I am passionate about all aspects of global health and in particular, access to essential surgical care. A specific area of interest is the paediatric population.It is such an honor to work with people who are just as driven and passionate about global surgery and who work hard to addresses barriers to essential surgical Care. 

 

 

 

Dr. Intisar Hisham

Paediatric Surgeon 

A peadiatric surgery resident at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. Enthusiastic researcher and advocate for global health especially the surgical aspect of it which has been quite neglected more so in low and middle-income countries.  I believe in equal access to surgical care for all people especially children despite one's circumstances whether it be geographical, financial or for any other reason. A healthy community is a happy and productive one. We should all strive in our own capacities to achieve it.

 

 

 

Salem Argaw

MD Candidate 

Salem studied Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University. She is currently studying violence against healthcare at the University of Geneva's Institute of Global Health through a Fulbright Research Grant. She is passionate about global health and increasing access to healthcare around the world. She will soon begin medical school in the states and is interested in surgery among other specialties.