Centre Staff

		Professor Philip Hill McAuley Professor of International Health Tel: +64 3 479 9462 Email: philip.hill@otago.ac.nz
		Professor John A Crump McKinlay Professor of Global Health Email: john.crump@otago.ac.nz
		Kristi Schlup Administrator Kristi has a Masters of International and Intercultural Management from the School for International Training in Vermont, USA. Formerly she has worked as a Study Abroad Advisor at Colorado State University and as an International Student Advisor at the University of Otago. Tel: +64 3 470 3584 Email: kristi.schlup@otago.ac.nz
		Merrin Rutherford Assistant Research Fellow Merrin is a graduate of the University of Otago. Following a BSc degree Merrin completed her Masters of Public Health where she investigated the relationship between child mortality and health service access. Merrin is currently based in Bandung Indonesia conducting population based tuberculosis research in conjunction with the Medical Research Unit, University of Padjadjaran. Email: merrin.rutherford@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
		Dr Susan Jack PhD Student Susan is a medical graduate of the University of Otago with a Diploma in Paediatrics from Auckland University and Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine from James Cook University, Australia. Following working as a house officer and paediatric registrar, Susan relocated to Phnom Penh Cambodia where she has been since early 1994 with an NGO “Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor”. Initially supporting services in a Government District Hospital in the poorest area of Phnom Penh, the NGO then developed community health and development programs amongst the urban poor in the same location. In 2004 the NGO localized and Susan began doing consultancy work for the World Health Organization and USAID health programmes. Since January 2007 Susan has been working for WHO in the area of child survival and nutrition and is currently working as Medical Officer for Maternal and Child Health and acting MCH team leader for the Cambodia WHO office. Susan is also doing her PhD part time undertaking research on Combating anaemia and micronutrient deficiencies among young children in rural Cambodia through in-home fortification and nutrition education (Good Food for Children Study) with the National Nutrition Program, Ministry of Health and other partners.
		Dr Debasish Saha PhD Student Debasish, a physician from Bangladesh did his medical degree from Trivandrum Medical College, Kerala, India under the Indian Council for Cultural Relation (ICCR) scholarship programme. He did his training in paediatrics from Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh and then joined the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) as medical officer. Working at ICDDR,B influenced him to become a career public health physician and he obtained the NIH funded Fogarty Scholarship to pursue Masters in epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health with special emphasis on infectious disease epidemiology in 2001. After obtaining MSc. In epidemiology Debasish continued to work at ICDDR,B as an assistant scientist where his main focus was to look at the trend of antibiotic resistance against vibrio cholera and shigella. His team conducted few randomized control trials (RCT) to look at the efficacy of single dose antibiotics for the treatment of cholera and shigellosis. Results of those were published in peer reviewed journals like Lancet and NEJM and subsequently they were incorporate in the management guideline by WHO. In 2007 he joined the Gambia unit of Medical Research Council Laboratories (UK), as clinical epidemiologist. In the Gambia he lead a multi-centre diarrhoeal disease study in under five children funded by the Gates Foundation and collaborated by the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA. Debasish is currently doing his PhD on “Disease burden, aetiology and sequelae of diarrhoea in under five children in sub Saharan Africa”. He is also a recipient of Otago University out of Season Scholarship.
		Onalenna Seitio-Kgokgwe PhD Student Onalenna is in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, and the Centre for International Health. She is the recipient of a University of Otago Post Graduate Scholarship. She comes from Botswana, where she has worked in the Ministry of Health in different capacities. Most recently she is the coordinator for the Family Nurse Practitioner program at the Institute of Health Sciences in Gaborone. She graduated from the University of Botswana with a Bachelor of Education (nursing), Johns Hopkins University (USA) with Master of Science in Nursing, the University of Limpopo (South Africa) with Master of Public Health (double major in Health Systems Management and Policy and Social and Behavioural Sciences). Her current research is in the area of health sector reforms, assessing the impact of the organizational restructuring of the Ministry of Health in Botswana on health sector performance.
		Dr Uzoh Egere MPH Student Uzochukwu is the first recipient of the McGibbon Scholarship offered by the Centre for International Health to study for his Masters in Public Health. He is a medical graduate from the University of Jos, Nigeria and is a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians (Paediatrics). He was awarded the best senior resident in the University College Hospital in Ibadan Nigeria in 2004. Having recently worked for the Medical Research Council (UK) in the Gambia, Dr Egere aspires to make a positive contribution to the glaring international health challenges today and make his mark in the medical profession.
		Choolwe Nkwemu Jacobs MPH Student Choolwe is a graduate of the University of Zambia where she completed her Bsc degree in Medical and Surgical Nursing. She has worked in the ministry of health and most recently has worked as a lecturer in a college of nursing. In 2010, she was awarded the NZAID scholarship to study Public Health at Otago University in New Zealand. Choolwe’s current research is an investigation of the age-specific seroprevalence of antibodies to Hepatitis E Virus in children in an urban-population of Zambia.
		Kaaren Mathias Adjunct Research Fellow Kaaren is a medical graduate from Auckland School of Medicine. She completed her MPH in 1997 (James Cook University) and her Fellowship in Public Health Medicine (AFPHM) in 2004. She has worked with NGOs in Cambodia and Colombia. In early 2006 she moved with her family to Himachal Pradesh, North India and as been working on a maternal and child nutrition programme with a national NGO there. Her particular interests in international health are maternal survival, child nutrition and advocacy for change in the structures that support global health inequalities. Email: kaarenmathias@gmail.com
		Satupaitea Viali Honorary Fellow