Personal information
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.