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Fogarty Training Advisory Group

The Training Advisory Group (TAG) consists of representatives from Dartmouth, Boston University and Muhimbili with extensive experience in international health and/or the scientific disciplines involved in the Program. An additional member, Dr. Chris Whalen, from Case Western Reserve (CWR) provides specific expertise in the conduct of Fogarty programs and to enhance the possibility of program collaborations between Tanzania and a current CWR Fogarty Program in Uganda. Members of the TAG will be responsible for selecting candidates for degree programs, approving candidates for non-degree programs, advising faculty and trainees, monitoring progress of the Program, and re-assessing training and research priorities. They will meet twice during the first year of the Program and annually thereafter to review reports from the Fogarty Committee. Members of the Training Advisory Group are listed below.

Dartmouth Medical School

James Strickler, M.D. Dr. Stickler is a former Dean of Dartmouth Medical School and current Co- Chairman of the International Rescue Committee. He has made over 25 consultative visits to developing countries and/or refugee camps in Asia, Ocean, and Africa learning first hand the healthcare needs and research priorities of many resource poor regions. He has been a member of the Board of Governors of the National Council for International Health 1987-91 (Chair 1991) and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Global Health Council (1998-). He currently coordinates a student-faculty exchange program between the School of Medicine at the University of Prishtina, Kosova and DMS. He has extensive experience teaching and directing degree and non-degree programs in health sciences.

William Green, Ph. D. Dr. Green received his B.S. degree in Microbiology from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his Ph.D. in Microbiology/Immunology from Case Western Reserve University in 1977. After postdoctoral work on an individual NIH postdoctoral fellowship and as a research associate in Immunology at first Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and then at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington in Seattle, he became an Assistant Member/Professor in 1980. Dr. Green joined the faculty of the Department of Microbiology at Dartmouth Medical School in 1983. From 1992-2002 Dr. Green served as Director of the Immunology Program, including the Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy Program of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, before becoming Chairman of the Microbiology and Immunology Department in July, 2002. He has trained numerous Ph. D. candidates at Dartmouth.

Boston University

Susan D. Foster, Ph.D. Dr. Foster is Professor and Chairman of the Department of International Health at BUSPH. Dr. Foster is a health economist by training and has extensive experience in and publications from Africa. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire (Congo) and Cameroon, did her Ph.D. research in Zambia, and has traveled and worked throughout Africa. She worked for several weeks in Mwanza, Tanzania, with a team on cost-effectiveness of an STD and HIV project based in Mwanza. Her special expertise is the economics of infectious diseases in developing nations. In addition, as Chairman of the Department of IH at BUSPH, she is knowledgeable about the training needs of international students and will facilitate the full participation of the AITRP trainees in the activities of the school while they are here.

Donald M. Thea, M.D., M.Sc. Dr. Thea is Professor of International Health at Boston University School of Public Health and has been performing HIV-associated clinical research for over 10 years. From 1989-1991 he was the field coordinator of an NIH program project grant (ICAR - International Collaboration for AIDS Research) which was an integral part of the international research project, Projet SIDA in Kinshasa, Zaire. Following this Dr. Thea became Principal Investigator of the New York City Perinatal HIV Transmission Collaborative Study. He served in a leadership capacity for this five-site multicenter cohort study. Dr. Thea has been the Scientific Director of the Applied Research for Child Health Project at the Harvard Institute for International Development and then the Boston University Center for International Health for the last three years. Dr. Thea is the Principal Investigator of the NICHD-funded (R01 HD39611) Zambia Exclusive Breastfeeding Study (ZEBS) which is a 5 year prospective cohort study to determine the efficacy of exclusive breastfeeding and abrupt weaning in minimizing the risk of late postnatal transmission of HIV in resource poor settings.

Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences

Andrew Swai, M.D., M. Med. Dr Swai is Professor of Medicine at MUCHS, teaches at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level and is involved in patient care and research. As chairperson of the College Higher Degrees Committee, Dr. Swai is responsible for the scientific appraisal of all research proposals for higher degrees by the College and consideration and approval of postgraduate examination results before transmission to the Academic Board. Dr. Swai also holds the appointment as Head, Information and Technology Unit at MUCHS

Charles Mkony, M.D., M. Med. Dr. Mkony is Associate Professor and Head Department of Surgery and has served as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and coordinated courses on medical ethics. He served as Chair of the Faculty of Medicine Higher Degree and Publications Committee and is currently the Coordinator of the Faculty of Medicine Consultancy Bureau.

Case Western Reserve School of Medicine

Christopher Whalen, M.D, M.S. Dr. Whalen is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Dr. Whalen has served as a consultant to the Dartmouth/Muhimbili DARDAR Health Study for the past three years. He is currently the head of the Epidemiology division in the department, and the director of the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease Center in the Medical School. His research interests focus on the control of infectious diseases in human populations, especially tuberculosis and HIV infection. Since 1991, he has been involved with the Uganda-Case Western Reserve University Research Collaboration as a physician-epidemiologist. In this international collaboration, he has evaluated the interaction of tuberculosis and HIV infection at the cellular, clinical and population levels. To date he has been the lead epidemiologist on six clinical trials evaluating prevention and treatment of tuberculosis in HIV-infected persons and on three observational cohort studies of tuberculosis transmission in the community. He has mentored over 60 students including Masters and Ph.D. graduate students, medical students, residents, fellows, and pos-doctoral students. He has served as a consultant for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, and the Fogarty International Center.