[india-drug] Welcoming Malcolm Bryant to the SATELLIFE staff

[Holly Ladd <hladd@usa.healthnet.org>]

Welcoming Malcolm Bryant to the SATELLIFE staff
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Dear All,

I hope you will join me in welcoming Malcolm Bryant to the SATELLIFE 
staff.  Dr. Bryant, who came on board this month, brings a wealth of 
talent and experience that will surely enhance all of our efforts.  I 
encourage you to take full advantage of his expertise, communicate with
him regularly and help him understand your work and needs.

Dr. Bryant will be adding his voice and perspectives to SATELLIFE's 
flagship publications  Health Net News, Health Net News AIDS, and 
Health Net Community Health.  Moderators should take advantage of his
ability to help find answers to questions for the filed and to share
his experience in health systems development and management.  I
encourage you to let members of your lists know that he is on board and
eager to be of assistance.

He will collaborate with members of individual HealthNets to provide 
advice and assistance on public health related issues, and will work
with SATELLIFE's US-based staff and collaborators to expand the range
of topics covered and adapt new and emerging technologies to the
reality of working in both urban and rural settings in Africa.

Dr. Bryant has a background in Clinical Medicine and Public Health.  
His basic medical training was at the Royal London Hospital, England,
and he specialized in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Southampton
University.  
In 1981, he was appointed as a Government Medical in Rural Zimbabwe,
and a year later became District Medical Officer for the Mutasa
District on Zimbabwe's Eastern Border with Mozambique.

After completing his Master's in Public Health at the Harvard School of

Public Health in 1987, Dr. Bryant held a joint appointment as a 
lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a research
associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development.  He
taught courses in Community Diagnosis and Health Management Information
Systems in Boston, and collaborated with the Ministries of Health of
Togo and Djibouti in the use of information for effective decentralized
planning.  He also managed a large research and implementation project
with the Government of Cameroon, undertaking the "Reorientation of
Primary Health Care"  a program aimed at implementing effective health
reform through decentralization, community participation, and the use
of revolving drug funds.

Between 1991 and 1995, Dr. Bryant served as Regional Director of Health

and Medical Health Officer for the Prince Albert Region of Northern 
Saskatchewan, Canada.  In 1995 he joined the Boston-based, non-profit 
Management Sciences for Health.  With MSH, he oversaw the development 
and implementation of projects aimed at improving the functioning of
health systems in Senegal, Guinea, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar,
South Africa, Haiti, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Bangladesh and
the Philippines.  Since 1991 he focused specifically on how to
strengthen governments and NGOs to more adequately respond to the
HIV/AIDS pandemic, focusing on Malawi and South Africa.

He joins SATELLIFE with a desire to be able to provide necessary tools 
and information to front-line clinical and public health providers that

will enable them to provide more effective responses to the
overwhelming burden of providing care in severely under-resourced
environments.  He can be contacted at SATELLIFE at
mbryant@healthnet.org, or by phone at our 
offices 617-926-9400

Holly Ladd
SATELLIFE









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