The Project Team
Trustees
Huw Jones - Zambia Director
Huw has spent 15 years in the safari industry in Africa, leading safaris and running lodges in Eastern Zambia and Tanzania. He returned to the UK to complete a Masters in Environment and International Development, and has subsequently worked for the European Union and United Nations specialising in sustainable development and for the World Bank conducting assessments on economic empowerment
Paul Mustardé - UK Director
Paul, a Scotsman, has many years of Project Management and organisational management experience in the UK, both in the environmentally-sustainable sector of the construction industry and the music industry.
Lauren Foster Mustardé
Lauren is a public health specialist with extensive experience in the international development sector. With a specialisation in reproductive & sexual health, she has worked in the NGO sector as a programme manager for women's health projects in Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe as well as in academia as a researcher on large international projects to improve the measurement of maternal mortality in developing countries.
Medical Advisors
Zambian Med
ical Director
Dr Kawaye Kamanga PhD, MCOMM.H, MBChB
Dr Kamanga is a senior level Zambian health professional and has been extensively involved in the community, social and health planning process and structural health systems reforms in a number of countries. He has served as Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Health in Zambia (1992-1996), and Medical Officer for the World Health Organisation in countries such as Zimbabwe, Lesotho and The Gambia
Dr Allan Chisenga MBChB
Dr Chisenga is the District Director of Health for Lundazi District in the Ministry of Health, Eastern Province of Zambia. He also practices clinical medicine at Lundazi District hospital as a Senior Resident Medical Officer (SRMO)
Dr Peter Chungulo MBChB, MPH
Dr Chungulo is a Zambian registered general medical officer and public health specialist, currently working as Programme Manager for STAMPP ( Strengthening TB AIDS Malaria Prevention Programme ), part of the ZAMBART (Zambia AIDS Related Tuberculosis) project. He worked as Clinical Care Manager for Mansa General Hospital (404 beds) for five years
Dr Michael Bush OBE, MRCGP
Dr Bush has more than 30 years' diverse leadership experience as a physician executive in Zambia. He was appointed Chairman of the Medical Council by the Minister of Health (1994-1997) and served as Chairman of Committee in 2005. Dr Bush has also been the Medical Director and Chairman of Trustees of the Chilanga ’Mother of Mercy’ Hospice in Lusaka since 1999, and in recent years has served as the Chief Medical Officer of the Corpmed Clinic and then the Senior Medical Advisor to the Care for Business Medical Centre, also in Lusaka
Professor John Jellis OBE, FRCS
Prof Jellis joined the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka in 1970 and retired from the University as Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in 2000. He helped found the Zambian Italian Orthopaedic Hospital (Leonard Cheshire Foundation) in 1995 and retired from private practice there in 2005. In 1982, he founded the FlySpec Project as an extension service in orthopaedic and reconstructive surgery to remote hospitals in Zambia. He continues as chief pilot, surgeon and coordinator
Dr John R Bell DTM&H
After many years working as a physician in UK hospitals, Dr Bell trained at the London School of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene before spending five years working for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as Government Medical Officer to the Botswana Government. In retirement Dr Bell has undertaken two spells of volunteer work at the Kakumbi clinic in North-East Zambia.
Technical Advisor
Roger M. Gachago, University of Edinburgh
Roger is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, and has been involved in various telemedicine projects in Africa with the Botswana Technology Centre (Botec), the University of Botswana, the Center for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa, The Baylor International Paediatric Aids Initiative (BIPAI) and the Botswana-Baylor Children’s Clinical Centre of Excellence.