Mwinyi Msellem
Employed in Ministry of Health and work in Malaria Control Project under USAID as Entomological aid since 1984. In 1989 -1992 trained in Medical Laboratory Technology at the College of Health Sciences Zanzibar.
In 1998, he joined Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences in Dar es salaam for Advanced Diploma studies in Medical Laboratory Sciences specifically in Parasitology and Medical Entomology, during his advanced diploma course he investigated Factors associated with Plasmodium falciparum gametocytaemia to the young children children aged 5 -60 months in Zanzibar.
After completion his undergraduate course he came back to his office as Health Laboratory Scientific Officer and appointed to be Head of Diagnostic unit of ZMCP from 2000, and subsequently he participated in comparative study Artesunate + sulphadoxine pyrimethamine versus sulphadoxine pyrimethamine alone for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children in Zanzibar: a randomised placebo-controlled comparative efficacy study.
In 2005, he joined Karolinska Instituttet of Stockholm- Sweden for Postgraduate course in Research and training in Infectious disease and defended his thesis in 2009 titled Efficacy of artemisinin-based combination therapy and effectiveness of rapid diagnostic test for management of patients with Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Zanzibar. In 2010, he appointed to be Deputy Programme Manager in Zanzibar Malaria Programme until 2016 when he appointed to be Director Training and Research in Mnazi mmoja hospital up to 2021. In 2022 -2023 he worked as a Research Coordinator at the Department of Planning, Policy and Research. From March 2023 he appointed to be Manager in the Zanzibar Public Health Laboratory under Department of Preventive and Health promotion.
Part time positions include Chairperson of the Zanzibar Health Research Ethical Committee, Coordinator of the Zanzibar Malaria Research Unit Karolinska Instituttet and Member of Executive Committee for Zanzibar Association for Medical Laboratory Scientific Organisation.
He has participated in around 35 reviewed published articles
In 1998, he joined Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences in Dar es salaam for Advanced Diploma studies in Medical Laboratory Sciences specifically in Parasitology and Medical Entomology, during his advanced diploma course he investigated Factors associated with Plasmodium falciparum gametocytaemia to the young children children aged 5 -60 months in Zanzibar.
After completion his undergraduate course he came back to his office as Health Laboratory Scientific Officer and appointed to be Head of Diagnostic unit of ZMCP from 2000, and subsequently he participated in comparative study Artesunate + sulphadoxine pyrimethamine versus sulphadoxine pyrimethamine alone for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children in Zanzibar: a randomised placebo-controlled comparative efficacy study.
In 2005, he joined Karolinska Instituttet of Stockholm- Sweden for Postgraduate course in Research and training in Infectious disease and defended his thesis in 2009 titled Efficacy of artemisinin-based combination therapy and effectiveness of rapid diagnostic test for management of patients with Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Zanzibar. In 2010, he appointed to be Deputy Programme Manager in Zanzibar Malaria Programme until 2016 when he appointed to be Director Training and Research in Mnazi mmoja hospital up to 2021. In 2022 -2023 he worked as a Research Coordinator at the Department of Planning, Policy and Research. From March 2023 he appointed to be Manager in the Zanzibar Public Health Laboratory under Department of Preventive and Health promotion.
Part time positions include Chairperson of the Zanzibar Health Research Ethical Committee, Coordinator of the Zanzibar Malaria Research Unit Karolinska Instituttet and Member of Executive Committee for Zanzibar Association for Medical Laboratory Scientific Organisation.
He has participated in around 35 reviewed published articles
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