Wilbroad Mutale, PhD, MBChB

Wilbroad
Mutale
M.B.Ch.B, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Zambia School of Public Health
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Medicine

Wilbroad Mutale, MBChB, PhD, is a full-time faculty member at the University of Zambia School of Public Health and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Mutale has over 16 years of work experience in Sub-Saharan Africa working as a manager, clinician, and researcher. His primary research interests are the implementation of complex health systems interventions and health system strengthening in low-income settings. He has worked on a variety of research projects on topics such as non-communicable diseases and prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV. 

wmutale@yahoo.com
Mutale

Why Mentorship Matters in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

"Mentors are teachers but not all teachers are mentors." Lackson Kasonka, Senior Mentor The next generation of global health researchers, scientists and practitioners are benefiting from a mentoring program at the University of Zambia (UNZA) in Lusaka with the help of colleagues from the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with support from the Fogarty International Center.

Scott S. Lee MD, PhD, MPA, MPhil

Scott
S.
Lee
MD, PhD, MPA, MPhil
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, VUMC

Dr. Lee has a background in behavioral and development economics, focusing on improving primary healthcare delivery in the U.S. and low-income countries. His research uses insights from behavioral and organizational economics to improve health behavior and health care delivery in the United States and in developing countries. His recent projects include several field-based randomized controlled trials aimed at strengthening large-scale, public-sector frontline health worker programs in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

In 2015, he earned a joint MD from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in health policy and management from Harvard Business School. He also holds an MPA from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar, and a BA in anthropology and comparative religion from Harvard College, graduating summa cum laude.

Scott has held positions at the World Health Organization, Partners in Health, and Brigham and Women's Hospital. His research has been supported by organizations such as the Weiss Family Program Fund, Grand Challenges Canada, and the United States Agency for International Development.

Education

MD, Harvard Medical School
PhD, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

scott.lee@vumc.org

Global Health Research Interests: Economics, Global Health Systems/Delivery, Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs), Tobacco Control

Countries: India, Kenya, Zambia

Lee, Scott

UNZA-Vanderbilt Training Partnership Hosts Workshop on Cardiovascular Disease

The UNZA-Vanderbilt Training Partnership for HIV-Nutrition-Metabolic Research (UVP) continues a longstanding training collaboration between the University of Zambia School of Medicine/University Teaching Hospital (UNZA/UTH), and the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH). Dr. Douglas Heimburger, Associate Director for Education and Training for VIGH and Dr. Selestine Nzala, Head, Department of Medical Education, University of Zambia School of Medicine serve as Principal Investigators.

VIGH Hosts Program for Strengthening Clinical Trial Regulation Capacity

This week, VIGH hosted visitors from Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) and the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) to attend the VIGH Transdisciplinary Program for Strengthening Clinical Trial Regulation Capacity. The goal of this program was to build capacity of NAFDAC and NACA staff for clinical trial regulation and oversight of clinical trial protocols. NAFDAC, Nigeria's local equivalent of the U.S.