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Prof. Blandina T. Mmbagama gives her long awaited Inaugural Lecture
Professor Blandina Theophil Mmbaga is Adjunct Professor at University College Cork’s Department of Paediatrics and Child Health since February 2020. Unfortunately due to the covid pandemic, Prof Mmbaga's inugural lecture was cancelled in Feburary 2020 but we are delighted to announce that she will deliver her Inaugural Lecture as Adjunct Professor at the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health on Tuesday March 21st at 2pm.
Professor Blandina Theophil Mmbaga is the Director of Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute (KCRI) in Moshi, Northern Tanzania. She is also a Paediatrician at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC), a Director of Research and Consultancies at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Adjunct Associate Professor at Duke Global Health Institute, and Adjunct Professor at University College Cork’s Department of Paediatrics and Child Health. Prof Mmbaga’s PhD in Public Health, from the University of Bergen, Norway, in 2013 examined perinatal mortality in Northern Tanzania, using Birth Registry Data from Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre. She provides mentorship and supervision to several students both within and outside Tanzania who pursue their careers in different fields. Prof Mmbaga’s ability to work with multidisciplinary teams in different areas has enabled her to collaborate with researchers in maternal and child health, infectious diseases including Tuberculosis, HIV and zoonoses, and non-communicable diseases. She is the Director of the NIH D43 - TRECK training grant on Trauma and Injury and D43-SBS training in HIV Social behavioral science, providing mentorship and supervision to several PhD and MSc trainees in Tanzania and other Universities outside Tanzania.
Since 2016 she has worked with the INFANT Centre, UCC to promote improvements in Neonatal Care at KCMC and to strengthen the KCMC Medical Birth Registry, upgrading it from a paper-based system to a web-based database for which data can be gathered and entered electronically. This will facilitate easier access to, and utilisation of, birth registry data by clinicians and researchers, support institutional monitoring and tracking of maternal and neonatal outcomes, and inform interventions. Prof Mmbaga is Co-PI, together with INFANT’s Dr Ali Khashan and Dr Simon Woodworth on the IRC Coalesce funded Kilimanjaro ULTRA 2020 project: A Digital Delivery Register for Reproductive Health in Low Resource Settings.
Professor Blandina Theophil Mmbaga Inguural lecture will be on Improving perinatal and neonatal mortality in Tanzania: the impact of partner collaborative support