Khadar M. Abdi -- Bio chemist at the Cell Biology laboratory of Vann Bennett. His research looks into the c-terminal regulatory domain of ankyrins as a possible location for its regulation.
Asli Kulane -- Researcher and lecturer at the Division of International Health (IHCAR), Dept of Public Health Sciences Karolinska Institute. Coordinator of Research School of Global Health. Board member of the curriculum committee for Public Health Sciences Programme at Karolinska Institute. Current area of research includes HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Behaviour aspects of vaccine trials in low income countries, Migration and Health.
Abdi Jama -- Board Member and Founding Partner of Eactels Technologies. Prior to founding Eactels, Abdi Jama worked as a software team lead and architect for several leading IT and Telecom organisations including KPN, Comptel and Mirasys Oy. He worked as project manager and senior consultant for several EU projects: E-business Services Accounting Network (E-BSAN) and AsiaICT. He has given lectures on advanced programming courses at Evtek University of Applied Sciences, and tought such courses as Client/Server systems, Software Component Architect (EJB and CORBA) and Advanced Internet Programming. Abdi led international teams that located in USA, Canada, Turkey, and India.
Dr. Musse Mohamud Ahmed -- Associate Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Malaysia. Director of a new Center for Power and Energy Research and Development (CEPERAD). Interest include: Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Biomass Energy and House Hold Energy.
Mr. Abdi Jama has also worked as information systems security consultant and gave security trainings in several big organisations in the Middle East, including Naboodha Group in Dubai. Abdi is expert on many aspects of the ICT industry, specially banking and remittance sector. He consults with Money Transfer Organisations on such issues as Unti-Money Laundering and how to adapt and use advanced technologies to improve thier overal business performances. He was a researcher on information systems security at the Stockholm University of Technology (KHT) . Abdi holds also an Industrial Engineering & Managment degree from Arcada University of Applied Sciences and now finalizing his MBA degree.
Khalif Bile Mohamud -- Born in 1945 in Somalia, Dr Khalif Bile Mohamud graduated in medicine from Sofia University, Bulgaria in 1971, obtained two post-graduate specializations from the University of Rome, Italy – one on tropical and sub-tropical medicine and the second on clinical gastroenterology and digestive endoscopy. Subsequently, he secured his Ph.D. in the field of epidemiology of communicable diseases from Karolinska institute of Sweden.
In Somalia, he first practiced clinical medicine, became a tertiary care hospital administrator and senior academician as a Professor of Medicine and ultimately Dean at the Medical College of the Somali National University from 1980-1985.
He joined the World Health Organization from 1986-1989 in Somalia, and later from 1992 to 1998 as WHO Medical Officer Primary Health Care in Pakistan. Dr Bile was designated as WHO Country Representative first in Iran from 1999 to 2001 and in Pakistan since late 2001 and is currently based in Islamabad.
Additionally, he officiated as UN Resident Coordinator and WHO Representative in Afghanistan during 2002-2003. He has more than 60 publications in indexed international journals focusing on communicable diseases and health systems to his credit.
Dr Bile was awarded a high civil award of Sitara-i-Quaid-i-Azam by the President of Pakistan in recognition of his outstanding services to the country. He is also the recipient of the honorary Fellowship of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan.
Essa Kayd, a chief neurodiagnostic specialist (on the right at pic)
Mr. Kayd is the chief Neurodiagnostic at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School in Boston. He occasionally travels to Africa to offer his time; gives training to leading doctors in the continent. He is also trains physicians at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Medical School.
