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Biography

Dr Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi is a Global Health specialist who combines research with clinical work and health system projects to research innovations to sustain health services for infectious diseases in Africa. She trained as a Clinical Lecturer in Genito-urinary Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College, London and holds an Honorary Contract at Cambridge University Foundation Hospital. She has over 20 years’ experience working in Uganda and completed her PhD from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. In 2011 she joined the Infectious Diseases Institute, at Makerere University in Kampala, where she served as head of the clinical services.

In 2015 she established the Academy for Health Innovation, Uganda whose mission is ‘To improve health outcomes through innovations in clinical care, capacity building, systems strengthening and research which inform policy and practice with a strong emphasis on HIV and TB’. The Academy projects include an interactive voice response tool, Call for Life, for HIV, TB and COVID, and the ARTAccess app for supplying HIV medicines in private pharmacies. Currently she is working on a drone project for supplying medicines on islands in Lake Victoria.

In 2015 she also returned to the University of Cambridge as Lecturer in Public Health at Cambridge Institute of Public Health part-time. She has been
Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Aga Khan Health Services, Uganda since 2009 and immediate pas Vice-President Aga Khan National Council for Uganda. She was elected a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health in 2015 and Fellow of Royal College of Physicians, London in 2019.

Activities

Employment (2)

University of Cambridge: Cambridge, GB

2019-09-21 to present | Principal Research Associate (Institute of Public Health)
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Makerere University Infectious Diseases Institute: Kampala, Kampala, UG

2012-04 to present | Director (Academy for Health Innovation)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Liverpool: Liverpool, Liverpool, GB

2003-11-01 to 2009-09-01 | PhD (School of Tropical Medicine)
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University of London: London, London, GB

1994-09-01 to 1997-08-01 | MBBS (The Royal London Hospital)
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University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

1991 to 1994 | MA
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Professional activities (2)

Royal College of Physicians: London, London, GB

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Faculty of Public Health: London, London, GB

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Funding (9)

Use of Unmanned Aerial vehicles (Medical Drones) to Support Differentiated Service Delivery Models for Elimination of HIV in Uganda

2024-03-01 to 2026-08-30 | Grant
Medical Research Council (London, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER: MR/Y019717/1
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Hub for AI in Maternal, Sexual and Reproductive Health for Africa

2021-11 to 2024-10 | Grant
International Development Research Centre (ON, ON, CA)
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Streamlined 15-min HIV Viral Load Self-Testing Using Finger-Stick Blood

2020-09-01 to 2025-08-31 | Grant
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Bethesda, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: R33AI154628
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Towards eliminating HIV in Uganda by 2030; Preparing Ethical Review Committees to support this agenda

2019-04-12 to 2022-03-31 | Grant
Fogarty International Center (Bethesda, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: G11TW011309
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Pictures of ageing in Uganda; A partnership to explore demographics, phenotype and self perception in a community of older people

2017-12-01 to 2019-11-30 | Grant
Arts and Humanities Research Council (Swindon, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER: AH/R005990/1
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MICA:Development of new paradigm in differentiated care for HIV patients; Community pharmacy drug refill using the ARTAccess Mobile phone application.

2017-08-07 to 2019-05-05 | Grant
Medical Research Council (London, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER: MR/R00420X/1
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GH15-1632, Uganda: Global Health Security Partner Engagement: Expanding Efforts and Strategies to Protect and Improve Public Health Globally

2015-09-30 to 2020-09-29 | Grant
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: U2GGH001744
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Center for Point-of-Care Technologies Research for Sexually Transmitted Diseases

2007-09-30 to 2023-05-31 | Grant
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (Bethesda, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: U54EB007958
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Comparing Primary Health Care Delivery Models in Conflict Affected Settings of Cameroon and Nigeria

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