Involved in Health and global sustainable development? Interested in understanding better Scottish government thinking on future health programming to reduce the burden of Noncommunicable Diseases (NDCs) in partner countries?
Kids Operating Room and Scotland’s International Development Alliance are pleased to host an in-person roundtable discussion to explore future health programming on Friday 12 May at 10.00 – 12 noon at Kids Operating Room offices at 107 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3ES.
Arrival from 09:30 for tea, coffee and pastries with the meeting starting at 10am and ending at noon.
To help us understand better we will be joined by Professor Makasa from Zambia who has helped shape global awareness of the need for a focus on non-communicable disease in low-resource settings.
Speaker Bio:
Professor Emmanuel Makasa is an accomplished surgeon and academic from Zambia.
He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Global Surgery and is the founding director of Southern Africa Development Community’s (SADC) University of Witwatersrand Regional Collaboration Centre for Surgical Healthcare Improvement (WitSSurg).
A consultant and Global Health diplomat active on global, regional, national, and sub-national platforms advancing surgical healthcare policy formulation and implementation, he currently supports the sixteen SADC Member States where he chairs the regional SADC technical experts working group on surgical healthcare.
Professor Makasa has supported and worked with the World Health Organisation, mobilised, and coordinated multiple state and non-state actor stakeholders within the United Nations Systems; Global Health community; clinical care and within the development ecosystems around surgical systems improvement.
Prof Makasa served as the Republic of Zambia’s Health Attaché at the United Nations in Geneva and Vienna (2012-2017) during which time he chaired and led negotiations resulting in resolution WHA67.15, WHA68.15 and Decision WHA70(22). He was technical coordinator of the “Geneva African Health Experts” – Health Attachés from the African Union’s Permanent Missions at the UN in Geneva for the year 2014, where he supported the mobilisation and coordination of the international response against Ebola in West Africa.
Prof. Makasa’s work in global surgery has been instrumental in improving access to surgical care in low- and middle-income countries. He has been involved in several international collaborations aimed at improving surgical care in Africa, including serving as a member of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery and member of the leadership team of the Global Surgery Foundation (GSF).
In recognition of his contributions to global surgery, Prof. Makasa has received numerous awards and honours, including the Zambian President’s Insignia for Distinguished Service and the American College of Surgeons International Guest Scholarship.
He serves as Honorary Lecturer in Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery for the University of Zambia, School of Medicine and Honorary Fellow of the College of Surgeons of East Central & Southern Africa (COSECSA). He is also a member of various professional organizations and is a consultant orthopaedics and trauma surgeon at University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka.