Experts Directory

MB BChir (Cambridge 1980) FRCSEd 1984
Lecturer in Surgery University of Zimbabwe 1987 to 1992
Director of Postgraduate Training and Continuing Medical Education 1992 to 2020
Chairman of The Zimbabwe Open University Council 2013 to 2017
Founding Fellow, COSECSA then Assistant Secretary General, Secretary General, President 2011 to 2013. Member of the Court of Examiners present
Member of Boards of Governors of Hospitals in Zimbabwe

Rumishael Shoo is a highly experienced public health physician with over 47 years of work experience in clinical and public health practice, research, training, health planning and programming.

He worked with the Ministry of Health in Tanzania for ten years as a Medical Officer at Bombo Regional Hospital in charge of Family Planning while performing clinical duties in the hospital. He was appointed Principal of Tanga Medical Assistants School and later Principal Ifakara Medical Assistants School. He was promoted to Senior Medical Officer Education in early eighties and oversaw development of Medical Auxiliaries Training in the Ministry of Health in Tanzania. His duties included educational planning, research and curricular development. He joined AMREF in 1984 where he developed the AMREF Regional Tutor training program and co-authored the Training Teachers of Health Workers Manual. He was appointed project Leader of the South Sudan AMREF GTZ PHC Program where he served to 1988. He was appointed lecturer in Primary Health Care Management at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK under Professor Ken Newell up to 1990. While at LSTM he was the course convener for the three months’ certificate Primary Health Care Management course. He also taught and coordinated the Management Module for the Masters in Community Health Course.

Dr Shoo joined WHO EMRO as Coordinator for WHO Programmes in Somalia and later South Sudan for over 10 years. This gave him an opportunity to work and lead programmes with government counterparts, UN agencies and partners. He also led Health Coordination bodies for Somalia and Operation Life Line Sudan as well as serving as the health technical advisor to the government. As WHO Coordinator in Somalia and South Sudan, Dr Shoo worked closely with AMREF to develop and implementing the Early Warning Alert and Response concept. (EWARN) with Dr Jane Carter and the AMREF Clinical and Laboratory Team.

In 2001 he had an inter-organizational transfer from WHO to UNICEF and served as Regional Advisor for UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa for 8 years covering 21 countries. As Regional Advisor Health, Child Survival and Development, Dr Shoo led a team of 11 Technical Advisors in Water Sanitation, MNCH, Immunization, Nutrition and PMTCT. He responsibilities also included high level representation for UNICEF in meetings with senior government officials and organizations. While with UNICEF, Dr Shoo initiated and provided funding for the review and printing of the AMREF Child Health Manual. His last duty station with the UN was Freetown, Sierra Leone where is was posted by UNICEF to develop a successful Child Survival and Development programme for Sierra Leone.

After retirement from the UN, Dr Shoo continued to provide Technical Leadership in health programming in countries including Tanzania, Iraq, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Ethiopia. In 2011/12 he served as AMREF Director of Programs and led program development in six directorates (RCH, Malaria, WASH, HIV, and Program Communication. A significant achievement was the development of the first ever research strategy, establishment of a Knowledge Management Unit and a significant increase in AMREF publications including a supplement with Pan African Medical Journal. He also served as a senior partner with a health Systems consultancy group in Tanzania and undertook various assignments with CUAMM (Doctors for Africa), Harvard Medical School, World Vision, GIZ and UNICEF.

Dr Shoo has authored or co-authored 53 publications, including peer reviewed papers, books and technical documents.

Dr Shoo has served in various boards and these include Aga Khan Foundation, Comic Relief. He is currently a Board Member of the Global Iodine Network and the American Public Health Laboratories – Tanzania.

Justus Ashaba is an Information Systems Expert with over eight years of experience in design and implementation of digital health solutions, and parallel experience in implementing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and data use strategies in the health sector. He currently serves as a Programme Officer, Monitoring and Evaluation at Africa CDC. Before joining Africa CDC, Justus served as a Laboratory Information Systems Mentor at Uganda Ministry of Health National Health Laboratory and Diagnostic Services Department where he supported laboratory information systems implementation and M&E efforts in the diagnostics sector. He also led capacity strengthening for laboratory information management and use among a network of national tuberculosis reference laboratories in East, Central and Southern Africa under the Kampala-based WHO Supranational Reference Laboratory (SRL). In addition, he has gained wide experience through various collaborations in supporting Health Information Systems, Health Informatics, ICT for Development, Monitoring & Evaluation and Research in both private, government and non-government organisations. Justus holds a Master’s Degree in Information Systems of Makerere University, Postgraduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation of Uganda Management Institute, and a Professional Development Certificate (Monitoring and Evaluation in Global Health) of University of Washington.