Members and Bank of Expertise
These pages provide detailed information on AFRAN members’ profile, research and training interests and expertise. The OIA hopes this will prove a useful resource for those seeking to identify other researchers or practitioners for the purpose of consortium building, collaboration, exchange or discussion.
- Dr Isabella Aboderin
Research Fellow, 2006-2013
- Mr Olayinka Ajomale
Past Visitor
- Dr Doris Bohman
Past Visitor
- Mr Pieter Greeff
Past Visitor
- Professor Jaco Hoffman
Professorial Fellow
- Dr Alexandre Kalache
Past Visitor
- Dr Lola Kola
Past Visitor
- Professor Vera Roos
Affiliate Research Fellow
- Dr Monde Blessing Makiwane
Senior Research Specialist
- Association for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, The Gambia (APEA)
- Tunisian Association of Gerontology, Tunisia (ATUGER)
- Center for Community Advancement and Family Empowerment (CECAFE)
- Geriatric Respite Care Foundation, Uganda (GRCF-U)
- International Association of Homes and Services for the Ageing, United States (IAHSA)
- Liberian Association of Retired Persons, Liberia (LARP)
- South African Gerontological Association, South Africa (SAGA)
- South African Geriatrics Society, South Africa (SAGS)
- The Sudanese Society in care of older people, Sudan Khartoum (SSCOP)
- Dr Laurence A Adebusoye
Consultant Family Physician, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
- Mr Ademola Adeyemi
Executive Director
- Dr Njoku O. Ama
Senior Lecturer, University of Botswana
- Mr Linus Chimaeze Anyamele
Social and care worker
- Professor Nana Araba Apt
Professor of Sociology and Dean of Academic Affairs
- Dr Abimbola Asagba
Consultant/Research Officer
- Mr Olawale A Atere
Lecturer- Part time
- Ms Jill Atkins
Attorney/Consultant, Age Rights International
- Dr James A Ayangunna
Lecturer in Social Work
- Ms Jennifer Baird
Postgraduate Researcher, University of Southampton
- Ms Tracy G Beckett
Doctoral Student and Teaching Assistant
- Dr Harrison G Bloom
Senior Associate, International Longevity Center (ILC) USA
- Mrs Johanna Boersch-Supan
D.Phil Student, University of Oxford
- Ms Kathleen Brodrick
Director: Grandmothers against Poverty and AIDS (GAPA)
- Dr E. O Cadmus
Senior Resident at University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
- Professor Bilkish Cassim
Associate Professor and Head, Department Geriatrics, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
- Dr Maria G Cattell
The Field Museum of Natural History, USA
- Ms Maureen J Cheserek
Teaching assistant, Egerton University, Kenya
- Ms Nyasha C Chiunya-Huni
PhD student, Centre for Research on Ageing, University of Southampton
- Dr Thomas Clausen
Research Fellow, Department of General Practice and Community Medicine, University of Oslo
- Ms Nina Sandrine Djeumen Ndjapa
Student, Catholic University of Central Africa
- Ms Sarah Dsane
M.Phil Student
- Dr Friday A Eboiyehi
Research Fellow
- Dr Peter van Eeuwijk
Senior Lecturer and Senior Researcher
- Professor Frank Eyetsemitan
Professor of Psychology
- Professor Monica Ferreira
Professor and Director, Institute of Ageing in Africa
- Ms Annett Fleischer
Project Coordinator “Demography and Development”
- Mr Charles Che Fonchingong
Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Canterbury Christ Church University
- Dr Emily Freeman
LSE Health and Social Care
- Dr Mugo Gachuhi
Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Sociology, Kenyatta University, Kenya
- Mr Etienne Gashamura
Social Integration Officer
- Prof L Stephen Geyer
Associate Professor: Social Work, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Mr Julian W Githang’a
Masters Student
- Dr Radhouane Gouiaa
Medical Doctor
- Dr Deon Greyling
Fellow in Geriatric Medicine
- Ms Marie Greyling
Natural Health Consultant and Geriatric Nurse
- Professor Thando D Gwebu
Professor
- Dr Victoria Hosegood
Reader in Demography,University of Southampton
- Dr Akinyemi A Ibukun
Lecturer and Researcher
- Mr Gwatirera Javangwe
Chairman / Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Zimbabwe
- Professor Mamadou M Ka
Head of Internal Medicine Department, Thies University, Dakar Senegal
- Mr Mpiana Kalula
Doctoral Student
- Dr Sebastiana Z Kalula
Senior Specialist: Internal Medicine and Head of Geriatric Medicine
- Professor Norah Keating
Professor and Co-director Research on Ageing, Policies and Practice
- Lenah Boyani Kebaso
Graduate Student: Kenyatta University
- Dr Paulina Khumbah
Sociological Practitioner, NALA International
- Dr Sitawa R Kimuna
Associate Professor of Sociology
- Ms Hilda Kleynhans
University of Northwest
- Dr John Knodel
Research Professor
- Dr Paul Kowal
Scientist at WHO Multi-Country Studies Unit
- Dr Mark Lamont
Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, UK
- Ms Gloria Chepngeno Langat
Doctoral Student
- Professor Sebi Lekalakala-Mokgele
Associate Professor at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus)
- Dr Wendy Wen Li
Lecturer,James Cook University, Australia
- Dr Enguerran Macia
Researcher at the Laboratory of Physiology
- Ms Julia Mase
PhD Researcher at Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester
- Schola Nakachwa Matovu
Doctoral Student
- Dr Chucks J Mba
Deputy Director
- Dr Simeon Mesaki
Senior Lecturer
- Mr Solomon K Modisane
Lecturer North-West University, South Africa
- Mr Girma Mohammed
Ph.D Researcher
- Ms Nyikuri Mary Muyoka
Behavioural Scientist: Centre for disease control
- Mr Samuel Munanu Mwangi
MA Student, Wichita State University
- Ms Teddy Nagaddya
Research Officer, International Health Sciences University
- Ms Chiko Ncube
Doctoral Researcher
- Mr Joel Negin
Lecturer in International Public Health at the University of Sydney
- Dr Tavengwa Nhongo
Regional Representative for Africa, HelpAge International
- Dr Catharina Nord
Senior Lecturer, NISAL, Linköping University
- Professor James P Ntozi
Professor in Population Studies, Makerere University, Uganda
- Mr Erick Otieno Nyambedha
Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Maseno University, Kenya
- Dr David Nyamwaya
Educationist and medical anthropologist
- Dr Makandwe Nyirenda
Specialist Scientist, South African Medical Research Council, South Africa
- Dr Chamunogwa Nyoni
Lecturer, Bindura University of Science Education
- Mr James Odit
PhD Student,University of South Africa
- Ms Catharine Ogunmefun
Research Associate/PhD Candidate
- Professor Adesola Ogunniyi
Professor of Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
- Dr Fidelis Ogwumike
Senior Lecturer
- Dr Uzoma Odera Okoye
Lecturer
- Dr Olufemi Oluwole Olowookere
Consultant Family Physician
- Dr Alice N Ondigi
Lecturer: Kenyatta University
- Ms Joy Onokah
Volunteer, African Gerontological Society (AGES)
- Mr Joel Opare-Asare
Student, University of Ghana
- Ms Hilda Akinyi Owii
Research Assistant
- Dr Karen Atieno Oyiengo
Lecturer, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
- Mr Oluwagbemiga Oyinlola
Medical Social Worker, Geriatric Center, University College Hospital
- Ms Bongiwe Pakkies
Teacher/Student
- Dr Luisa Pereira
Senior Researcher
- Ms Grace Olufunke Peters
Executive Director: Glorious Family Health Link
- Mr George Petros
Senior Researcher, Human Science Research Council (HSRC)
- Dr Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya
Research Director, Human Sciences Research Council
- Mr Richard Antony Powell
Monitoring & Evaluation and Research Manager, African Palliative Care Association, Uganda
- Dr Debora J Price
Senior Lecturer, Gerontology, Institute of Gerontology, King’s College London
- Dr Katrien Pype
Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT (Cambridge, USA) and K.U. Leuven (Belgium)
- Mr Semanda Richard
TAFU (The Aged Family Uganda)
- Ms Glynn Ridge
Honorary Adviser for the Association for Sustainable Positive Ageing in the Gambia (ASPAG)
- Dr Ebrima Sall
Head, Department of Research, Council for the Development of Social Science research in Africa (CODESRIA)
- Dr Sheila Shaibu
Lecturer, Dept. of Nursing Education, University of Botswana
- Mr Anderson Simfukwe
Director, Aged Care and Service Centre, Nakonde, Zambia
- Dr Vendelin Tarmo Simon
Researcher, Lecturer Dept. Sociology and Anthropology, University of Dar es Salaam
- Dr Mercy J Sokomba
Executive Director, RetAge Center
- Ms Susan B Somers
Secretary General,International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA)
- Dr Helmut Spitzer
Lecturer in Social Work, Carinthian University of Applied Sciences
- Professor Herman Strydom
Professor in Social Work, North West University, South Africa
- Mr Gustavo Sugahara
Associate, Institute for Social and Economic Studies (IESE)
- Dr James T Sykes
Editor, Global Ageing (International Federation of Ageing)
- Ms Nele Marie Tanschus
Researcher and PhD student, Department for Gerontology, University of Vechta, Germany
- Dr Brent Tipping
Head of the Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand
- Mr Magbagbeola Tolulope
Public Health Worker
- Professor Kamadore Touré
Assistant Professor, University of Dakar
- Mrs Annabe Elizabeth Tredoux
Health Coach/Pharmacist
- Mr Marius J Tredoux
Graduate Student / Assistant
- Ms Laurel Van De Keere
Manager; Policy, Governance, and Legislative Services; Government of Alberta
- Professor S Sjaak Van der Geest
Emeritus Professor Medical Anthropology,University of Amsterdam
- Dr Els van Dongen
Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam
- Mr Stephan O Wandera
Assistant Lecturer, Makerere University
- Mrs Mada Watson
Senior Lecturer in Community Nursing Science, North-West University, South Africa
- Mr Didier Wayoro
PhD student, University Cheikh Anta Diop
- Professor G Clare Wenger
- Miss Sarah A Westwood
- Mr Michael Whyte-Kpessa
- Ms Jayne Wright
- Mr Tijjani Zubairu
