OUR TRUSTEES
Prof. Nana K. Poku
Professor Nana K. Poku is the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of KwaZulu Natal in which HEARD is based. He is a Political Economist with a research focus on the role of institutions (domestic and global) in health provision for the poor in Africa.
Over the past two decades, his research on the political economy of Africa’s HIV and AIDS epidemic has been amongst the most influential on the subject. Professor Poku has a wide array of published work on globalisation and security; HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa; global health; governance; migration and human security. He is also editor of three Ashgate book series and is currently working on a variety of research projects, including issues around security and development, globalisation, African politics, and HIV and AIDS.
Professor Poku was formerly Pro-vice Chancellor of Research at University of Bradford where he also served as Dean of School of Social and International Studies. Prior to Bradford, he held senior faculty posts at Universities of Southampton and Nottingham Trent, UK
Sibusisiwe Ndlela
Sibusisiwe Ndlela is a South African human rights lawyer and a legal consultant.
She is a sexual and reproductive justice expert with an interest in regional and international sexual and reproductive health and environmental law (on access to water and sanitation).
She practised as an attorney at SECTION27 where she litigated in South African cases on access to free universal maternal and child healthcare services, HIV discrimination, and access to medicines.
She has also served as a legal researcher at the Supreme Court of Appeal.
She holds an LLB from the University of Cape Town and an LLM (Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa) (with distinction) from the University of Pretoria. She is currently reading towards an LLM (Environmental Law) at the University of Witwatersrand.
Immaculate Owomugisha Bazare
Immaculate Owomugisha Bazare is a practicing gender and health justice lawyer working with Uganda Network on Law, Ethics and HIV/AIDS (UGANET).
She is dedicated to advocating and promoting rights of vulnerable and marginalised people through litigating health-related rights abuses at national and regional levels. She has promoted SRHR focusing on women living with HIV in Uganda. Immaculate’s work on challenging criminalisation of people living with HIV, challenging coerced and forced sterilisation speaks on how to end violence against women and girls.
She is a member of International Steering Committee (ISC) of the International Community of Women living with HIV, Board Treasurer for the International Community of Women Living with HIV Eastern Africa (ICWEA) and Board Member/ Legal Counsel – Kawempe Home Care (KHC).
Tatenda Makoni
Tatenda Makoni, Executive Director of ZNNP+, an umbrella organisation for People Living with HIV in Zimbabwe, efficiently uses his space in the sector to influence health and HIV policy outcomes.
He also had a successful career delivering with several organisations including the UN in Swaziland and Nigeria. He holds several qualifications including a Master of Science Degree in International Relations, a Master of Science Degree in Strategic Management, a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB). Tatenda is a member of the Law Society of Zimbabwe and sits on the Institutional Review Board of the Biomedical Research and Training Institute (BRTI-IRB).
Bramwell Kamudyariwa
Bramwell Kamudyariwa holds an MBA from Nottingham Trent University and is an accountant by profession. He is currently the Director for Finance and Operations at the International Training and Education Centre for Health (ITECH) in Namibia. I-TECH is an affiliate of the University of Washington and a global network that supports the development of a skilled health workforce and well-organized national health delivery systems, to provide effective prevention, care, and treatment of infectious disease in the developing world.
I-TECH is funded by the United States Federal Government. Prior to working at I-TECH, Mr Kamudyariwa was the Regional Manager: Finance and Administration for the Regional Office of the Media Institute for Southern Africa (MISA).