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Coordinator Name	Photo	Research Group	Role	Country	Bio
Flávia Buenos		Fiocruz	Coordinator of the Fiocruz Hub	Brazil	Graduated in Psychology, Flávia is also a Public Health Specialist. She holds a Master's degree in Public Health (Sub-area Public Policies and Health) and participated in the 2013 class of the Edmundo Granda Ugalde International Health Leaders Program of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO). She also holds a PhD in Global Health and Sustainability at the Faculty of Public Health of the University of São Paulo (FSP/USP). She currently coordinates the Fiocruz Hub at The Global Health Network and is a member of the executive team of the Zika Social Sciences Network and the Social Impacts of the Epidemic axis of the Covid-19 Fiocruz Observatory.
A. Roxana Lescano		NAMRU-6	Research Administration Officer/ Research Integrity Officer	Peru	Roxana served at NAMRU-6 for more than 30 years and in the role of Director of Research Administration since 2005. Her experience spans from IRB member training to program oversight and monitoring, assisting the institution and other institutions in Peru in the development of their institutional policies and educational programs in areas of human subjects protection, scientific integrity and care and use of animals. She has participated as NIH grant reviewer and is a frequent lecturer at master’s programs and professional associations in the topics of human subject protection and overall research integrity, in Peru and in other countries in Latin America. She has also graduated as an attorney and has completed a Masters in Bioethics and a Masters in Epidemiological Research.
Luiza Helena Madia Lourenço		REDe/ Universidade de Brasília	Lecturer	Brazil	Luiza is a scientist with a background in oncology and immunology. I am highly motivated to improve health indicators in Brazil and I believe this can only happen by fostering research. Within REDe, I work to establish partnerships with research groups in Brazil and organise workshops and supported learning initiatives in universities and health centres, such as hospitals and basic care units.
Oluwagbenga Ogunfowokan		National Hospital Abuja Research Group and National Practice based research network	Principal Investigator and Consultant Family Physician	Nigeria	Oluwagbenga is a Family Physician with special interest in Clinical Research in Tropical Diseases. He worked as a WHO/TDR Tropical Disease Clinical Research and Development Fellow, and has also pioneered the formation of Nigeria Regional Faculty of The Global Health Trials Network in 2012. His Global Health activities include but are not limited to: the organization of yearly National Clinical Research Capacity Development workshops in Nigeria, leading weekly e-learning clinical research capacity development courses in Nine Institutions within Abuja and eleven institutions in other states in Nigeria, organising biostatistics workshops, and forming research networks for health care workers across Nigeria. He has been the face of TGHN in Abuja and Nigeria, recruiting over 500 researchers to the platform.
Yetunde John-Akinola		University of Ibadan/ Global Health Trials	Lecturer	Nigeria	Yetunde teaches at the Department of Health Promotion and Education, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan (UI), and has a MPH (UI) and PhD (National University of Ireland, Galway). She has had training in adolescent sexual and reproductive health research (Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research, WHO). Taking up a faculty position at the UI created a pathway for teaching and training prospective leaders in public health. These created an opportunity to collaborate with two other colleagues, Dr. Tope Erinosho from the University of South Carolina, USA and Dr. Mojisola Oluwasanu (UI) to start a doctoral student journal club that meets monthly to keep students abreast of recent research in public health, engage them in critical discussions of research methodologies, critique of research articles to enhance their research and analytical strength and collaborate on development of research proposals. Her passion in helping and building the capacity of young researchers and/or scholars to excel in their chosen career/research path also links to my research interests in children and young people’s health, and methodologies for Health Promotion research.
Joby V George		Global Research Nurses	Nurse Coordinator-Clinical Research	India	Joby is a RN by profession having 10 years of continued experience in both patient care and Clinical Research,Joby is currently practising as a Nurse Coordinator in Clinical research at a tertiary hospital of Northern India. Joby was nominated for the "Best Research Nurse Award" in 2014. His interest is not limited to writing protocols, conducting investigator driven studies and patient centeric projects. Joby has successfully organized skills sharing workshops in major cities like Mumbai, Gujarat, and Bhopal. Research Capacity development, networking and collaborations are his key interests to explore research among healthcare professionals. Joby has also conducted Regional competitions among student nurses to explore and nurture research from the grassroots. Joby also serves onboard as the Regional faculty lead (India) of TGHN, University of Oxford and as Research Committee Member of IACRN, USA and serves as member of various non-governmental organizations of Delhi/NCR.
Ovidio Padilla		REDe	Information Technology Coordinator	Honduras	The Honduras regional faculty is a dynamic group of individuals with tireless energy and enthusiasm for building research capacity in Central and South America, for current and future researchers. Professor Jackeline Alger, is assisted by Milton Mendez and Albert Estrada, and many collaborators from key institutions in Honduras.
Jackeline Alger		UNAH: Scientific Research Unit, Faculty of Medical Sciences UNAH	Faculty member at the Faculty of Medical Sciences UNAH	Honduras	Jackeline is a Parasitologist working in the Department of Clinical Laboratory at University Hospital in Tegucigalpa, the main public health hospital in Honduras. She is also a faculty member in the Research Unit of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras, an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Tulane School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine (SPHTM) in New Orleans, and a board member of the Instituto de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Parasitologia Antonio Vidal—a non-profit organization devoted to training, advising, and conducting research in the field of infectious diseases. In addition to my work as a scientist and teacher, I am strongly committed to making sustainable health research a national priority and to strengthen the capacity for research and innovation in Honduras.
Elizabeth Allen		UCT Collaborating Centre for Optimising Antimalarial Therapy	Head of Clinical Research	South Africa	Elizabeth leads clinical research operations and methodology research (primarily in the field of pharmacovigilance) for CCOAT, which is based in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Cape Town. A pivotal part of my role is as scientific coordinator for the World Wide Antimalarial Resistance Network (www.wwarn.org) where I focus on antimalarial clinical trial capacity development and pharmacovigilance activities. These interests led to my coordination of the https://globalpharmacovigilance.tghn.org/ site and the South African Global Health Trials regional faculty. I also co-lead a new global health working group for the UK MRC-funded Hubs for Trial Methodology Research (HTMR) of which TGHN is a partner.