Ms. Ndunguru holds a bachelor degree in Public Relations from University of Dar es Salaam. She has more than five years’ experience in Administration, Human Resource and Finance both at Private and donor funded projects. Prior to joining Sickle Pan-African Research Consortium (SPARCO)-Tanzania, she has worked as Audit Associate at a medium size audit firm. Joyce has experience in financial planning, budgeting and monitoring.
Dr. Chirande is a consultant Pediatric Hematologist and Oncologist at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) and Lecturer at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania. She supervises both postgraduate and undergraduate and provides clinical care to SCD and oncology patients at MNH. Her passion is to improve patient care through training and research. She is a member of International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP).
Dr. Ruggajo is a consultant nephrologist at Muhimbili National Hospital, a senior lecturer, head of department of Internal medicine and head of the renal research group at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Science (MUHAS). He teaches and mentors medical and graduate students in their research projects. He holds PhD in Clinical Epidemiology (Outcomes) - Low birth weight and chronic kidney disease.
Dr. Tutuba is a Medical Doctor and master’s student working as a SPARCO-Tanzania Clinical Research Fellow within the Sickle Cell Program, Department of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences. She is involved in research and clinical duties, also in providing health education to Sickle Cell patients at clinics and the community at large.
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Dr. Mwashungi holds a Degree of Medicine (2010) and a Master of Medicine in Haematology and Blood Transfusion (2017) from the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania. Currently, she is working as a hematologist at Temeke Regional Referral Hospital where she is the head of the Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion.
Daniel Kandonga has a background in Computer Science and health informatics from St. Augustine University, Ruaha University College, Tanzania, and his Masters of Health Informatics at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM).
Dr. Irene Minja is a Senior lecturer in the department of Restorative Dentistry at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences. She is a Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS), and holds master of Philosophy in Dentistry (MPhilDent) and doctoral (PhD) degrees in community dentistry, specializing in oral health and quality of life of the elderly.
Dr. Jonathan is a Master's student of Public Health at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Science (MUHAS) and holds a Degree of Medicine from Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUCo). Her career objective is to demonstrate project management expertise with a focus on medical research both communicable and non-communicable diseases and the implementation of clinical studies with the goal of improving overall human health.
Having trained as haematologist in Italy and in the US (Columbia University), Lucio Luzzatto worked from 1964 to 1974 at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria; from 1974-1981 he was Director of the International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, CNR, Napoli, Italy; in 1981 he succeeded Sir John Dacie as Professor of Haematology and Director of the Haematology Department at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, University of