African Paediatric Fellowship Programme

02/04/2025

Also graduating is this triumphant trio of physiotherapists who receive their Postgraduate Diplomas in Clinical Paediatric Physiotherapy: Frida Manyanga (Muhimbili National Hospital), Tendai Banda (Queens Elizabeth Central Hospital) and Martha Chimwala (Zomba Central Hospital) thank you for the sparkle you brought to APFP last year and congratulations on this milestone. We're excited to see you growing paediatric rehab care in Tanzania and Malawi. Halala!

01/04/2025

Its also a day to celebrate Dr Alinanuswe Kasililika, pictured here with her mentor and fellow APFP alumnus in Tanzania, Dr Namala Mkopi. Cheers to you, dear Nuswe, for your grit, your warmth, and your dedication to critically ill children ... and for acing your Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Paediatric Critical Care! Hats off! We're thrilled for you, and thrilled for Tanzania.

01/04/2025

Paediatric critical care training is not for the fainthearted. Today we celebrate APFP fellow Dr Katai Musonda Mulenga, from Ndola, Zambia, who graduates with her Postgraduate Diploma in clinical paediatric critical care. , you DID IT! We applaud not only your qualification but also the calm quiet dignity with which you reached it ✊🏾.

19/11/2024

A final WHOOP for 2024 in the form of a new neonatologist for Uganda. The past 3 years have thrown the most enormous challenges at Dr Ritah Nazziwa, but today she emerges the champion. Dear Ritah, your resilience has been utterly remarkable. Congratulations to Ritah for passing her fellowship exams in neonatology, and hats off to Nsambya Hospital, Kampala for its dedication to improving services for sick and premature newborns in Uganda.
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30/10/2024

Yes Yes Yes! Ghana has a Paediatric Allergist! Dr Hilary Andoh has been a model of patience and diligence and quiet strength through this grueling process of subspecialty training in South Africa. Massive 🎺congratulations 🎊to you, dear Hilary, and halala for Ghana generally, and Greater Accra Regional Hospital specifically, too.

30/10/2024

There's plenty to celebrate this exam season. Dr Oaitse Wally, who headed home recently sporting a greying beard as medallion of 2 intense years of subspecialty training, becomes Botswana's 2nd Paediatric Nephrologist this week. Hats off Wally! We know that between you and Thembi Mosalakatane, children's kidney disease will be identified, treated and managed at a whole new level in Botswana.

30/10/2024

Meet THE FIRST PAEDIATRIC NEPHROLOGIST IN MALAWI, people! Ethwako Geraldine Mlia-Phiri is overjoyed, and so are we 🥳🎊. Congrats dear Etha, and thank you for all the energy, honesty, insight and social organising you have brought to the APFP. We know you'll be focusing all these qualities on Paediatrics at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre soon - Colleagues at QECH, prepare to learn everything you ever needed to know about Kidneys!
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23/10/2024

Watipaso Wanda-Kalizang'oma is training in general paediatrics at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS) in Malawi, and like 16 of her colleagues before her, has spent 15 months completing the final rotations for her Malawian qualification here with the APFP at UCT. Next year, she will graduate with her MMed in General Paediatrics from KUHeS, but this week she bagged an extra qualification in the form of a fellowship in General Paeds from the College of Paediatrics of South Africa. 🎊 Congrats dear Wati 🥳 - and wishing you a happy return home to Malawi, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital and your beloved family next month.

07/10/2024

Look at what APFP paediatric pulmonology alumnus Dr Diana Marangu-Boore is up to now! Exciting to witness the growth of African clinical research and evidence in the field. Congrats Diana!

Research Spotlight💡

Diana Marangu-Boore is an African Postdoctoral Training Initiative Fellow & from . She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Nairobi.

Dr. Marangu-Boore is working on the immunology and genetics of recurrent and persistent in children to inform optimal diagnostic pathways and management in .
Learn more 👉 https://shorturl.at/8dxpP


Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH IRP)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
National Human Genome Research Institute
Gates Foundation

26/09/2024

Rather than coming to Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital any longer, paediatric anaesthetics trainees from the Pediatric Anesthesia Training in Africa (PATA) program are now completing their PICU training rotation in the PICU service set up by Dr John Adabie Appiah, and supported by Dr Eugene Martey at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Ghana.

These two APFP alumni have created a paediatric critical care unit that is perfectly positioned to support trainees from other countries in Africa. It is in instances like these that as APFP, we're reminded that we're on the right track ... 🎉

Pictured here, paediatric critical care specialists Drs Eugene Martey (L) and John Adabie Appiah (R) with Dr Aderonke Obisesan, paediatric anaesthetics trainee from Abuja, Nigeria.

25/09/2024

A huge congratulations to APFP Paediatric Infectious Diseases alumni Dr Ombeva Malande (Kenya) and Joycelyn Assimeng Dame (Ghana) for being selected as 2 of 13 scholars chosen among 450 applicants from 28 countries to be the first Stanford African Scholars in Global Health. And lucky Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health to be able to learn from these remarkable doctors too...

Read more here: https://globalhealth.stanford.edu/bidirectional-partnerships/announcing-the-inaugural-stanford-african-scholars-in-global-health.html/

10/09/2024

Congratulations to Dr Emmanuella Amoako who has just completed her subspecialty in Paediatric Oncology with the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons (GCPS). We loved having her here for a 3-month rotation as part of her GCPS training. Halala Ella!