Professor Stienstra is a Professor of Medicine, an infectious diseases specialist, and a clinical epidemiologist. Her research focuses on infectious diseases prevalent in tropical regions, including neglected tropical diseases (NTDS) and those impacting underserved communities. This includes snakebite envenoming, Buruli ulcer, and scabies.

Dr Oluoch, a Veterinary Surgeon and Tropical Diseases Specialist, leads the Kenyan Snakebite Research and Intervention Centre (KSRIC). He has secured major grant funding and built a decade-long research career focused on snakebite pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention as part of the LSTM-KIPRE collaboration. 

Professor Lalloo is Vice-Chancellor of LSTM and a clinical academic in tropical medicine. He has led major international research on snakebite, malaria, and HIV, with a focus on clinical trials across Africa, including in Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, eSwatini, and South Africa. He was awarded a CMG in 2025 for services to global health.

Dr Schurer is an Associate Professor in the Center for One Health at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. Her research explores the use of One Health approaches in controlling Neglected Tropical Diseases across low-resource settings, especially snakebite envenoming, podoconiosis, and taeniasis/cysticercosis.

Dr Amuasi leads the Global One Health Research Group at KCCR and BNITM. His research includes NTDs, AMR, and field epidemiologic studies and clinical trials on emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. He is the Executive Director of the African Research Network for NTDs and Co-Chair of the Lancet One Health Commission.  

Dr Mijumbi is Head of Policy at MLW and a senior lecturer at LSTM. A leading voice in evidence-informed policy in Africa, she has pioneered science-to-policy initiatives across continents and chairs the Africa Evidence Network. Her research focuses on decision-making in complex, urgent, and health security contexts.

Dr Padidar is Research Director at the Eswatini Antivenom Foundation and Senior Lecturer at the University of Pretoria. With experience across the health value chain, she now applies a One Health approach to snakebite, focusing on human, animal, and ecosystem health to improve understanding, prevention, and treatment of disease.

Jean Bosco is a public health expert specialising in eliminating infectious diseases. He coordinated Rwanda’s national NTD programme from 2017 to 2024, driving key initiatives including the first approved NTD strategic plan and decentralised NTD control efforts such as community-based mass drug administration. His focus is on eliminating seven NTDs, including snakebite and schistosomiasis.

Brent Thomas is the Senior Programme Manager at the Centre for Snakebite Research and Intervention at LSTM and oversees the large portfolio of research grants and clinical trials. He has worked on a wide range of NTD research and intervention programmes across Africa for the last 15 years, with a focus on lymphatic filiariasis, schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminths, onchocerciasis and snakebite envenoming.

Dileepa Ediriweera is an experienced academic and public health researcher specialising in geospatial epidemiology and health data science. His work focuses on applying advanced spatiotemporal methods to model and map the risk of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), including snakebite envenoming (SBE), soil-transmitted helminths (STH), and leprosy (LH), directly influencing policy and control strategies in low- and middle-income countries.

Mawuli Leslie Aglanu is a public health researcher with the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Ghana and finalising his PhD at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research focuses on epidemiology, health systems and policy analysis. Using One Health approaches, he contributes to multidisciplinary efforts towards improving health systems responses to NTDs such as snakebite envenoming and other public health threats in low-resource settings.

I am Lilian Wampande Nantume, a PhD candidate researching on prevention strategies for snakebites among high-risk occupational groups in Rwanda and Eswatini. I also serve as a Research Uptake Officer for ASA in Rwanda. 

Tonny Ngage is a medical anthropologist with over eight years of experience in participatory qualitative research. I currently serve as a Research Uptake Officer within the African Snakebite Alliance. My work focuses on how cultural logics, livelihoods, and local health worlds shape vulnerability, care-seeking, and treatment pathways for snakebite envenoming and other NTDs across Kenya and beyond. I am committed to improving NTD prevention and management through evidence generation, stakeholder engagement, and community-centred approaches. 

Robert Asampong is a PhD candidate at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and serves as the lead statistician at the Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group (KCCR, Ghana). He holds a strong background in public health, epidemiology, and applied biostatistics. His doctoral research focuses on the application of geostatistical methods to model and predict snakebite risk in Ghana and Rwanda.

Ismael Kawooya is a trained medical doctor and clinical epidemiologist. He has nearly ten years of experience in knowledge brokering, operating at the evidence-to-policy interface, especially where timely evidence is needed in urgent policy situations. During this period, he has trained and mentored over 100 researchers and policymakers in rapid evidence syntheses. Ismael’s research interests span the use of methods to analyze and evaluate the evidence use processes and  impact in policymaking, such as advanced computational modelling, social network analysis, process mapping, mixed methods, and citizen engagements, and application of newer digital technologies.