Conference Speakers
Meet the speakers
Conference Speakers
The 5th National Health research Virtual Conference will feature 5 different key note speakers with diverse expertise in various fields of public health and clinical practice. These speakers will cover topics under the theme: COVID-19, an emerging and evolving public threat, the role of research. Tune in as they tackle how countries have implemented responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact the pandemic has had on the health system.
Meet Our Speakers
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA
Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr is the founder and director of ICAP and an international expert in epidemiology and research on the prevention and management of HIV, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases. She is also the director of Columbia World Projects
Gugu Maphalala
Chief Medical Laboratory Technologist,Eswatini National Blood Transfusion Services/ Ministry of Health. She holds a master’s degree in Medical Virology
Jessica Justman, MD
Senior technical director, ICAP. Associate Professor of Medicine in Epidemiology
Bongiwe Prudence Malinga, MD, MPH
Senior Medical Officer for Public Health in the Ministry of Health, Eswatini. She earned a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery in the University of Zimbabwe, 2006
Emmanuel Nkosinathi Ndlangamandla
Executive Director for the Coordinating Assembly of NGOs (CANGO). A professional nurse who has a Masters Business Administration Degree. Current Chair of the Health Cluster of the COVID 19 Response
Professor Shabir A. Madhi, M.B.B.C.H. (Wits), FCPaeds(SA), Ph.D.
Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr. Velephi Okello
Deputy Director of Health Services, Ministry of Health , Eswatini. A Medical Doctor and holds a Master of Public Health Degree from Harvard Chan University USA
Dr Simanga Alex Tsela
Nuclear Scientist; a Pretoria based businessman, leadership coach, inspirational speaker; a leader of a global kingdom organisation, and an Author
Associate Professor Kennedy Otwombe
Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and the lead Statistician at the Perinatal HIV Research Unit (PHRU), University of the Witwatersrand