Training Advisory Committee

Dr. Cohen is a Professor at UCSF, Co-Director of UCGHI and the PI of the CDC/PEPFAR-funded Family AIDS Care & Education Services (FACES) program in Kenya funded by NIAID, NCI, NIMH, OAR, FIC and foundations. Dr. Cohen has directed the UCSF T32 Reproductive Infectious Disease Fellowship to train physicians and PhDs in RID global health research. He has also directed the GloCal D43 fellowship to train physicians and PhDs in global health research.

Professor Foupouagnigni is the Chief Academic Officer of the AIMS Global Network, President of AIMS Cameroon and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Yaoundé I in Cameroon. Professor Mama is responsible for the rigorous program development at AIMS Cameroon, and the conceptual design of AIMS’s Teacher Training Program (TTP).

Dr. Hoffman is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UCLA, Associate Director of the UCLA Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program, and Director of the UCLA School of Medicine Global Health Program. She has extensive experience performing collaborative research in Malawi, Zambia, and South Africa and is on the leadership team of a large PEPFAR/USAID-funded collaboration between Partners in Hope, a medical center in Malawi, and UCLA.

Dr. Etoundi currently serves as the Director of Disease Control, Epidemics and Pandemics for the MOPH, where he is responsible for overseeing the country’s hospital care. Dr. Etoundi previously served as the Chief of Emergency Services at the Central Hospital of Yaoundé and is currently a Co-PI on the ongoing CTR study to inform injury prevention policy and introduce quality improvement initiatives at partner hospitals.

Dr. Monono is a head and neck surgeon who served as the Regional Advisor for Health Policy and Service Delivery at the WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo. He has held a number of administrative leadership posts; including Provincial Delegate of Public Health, Director of Health Care Organization and Health Technology, and Director of Family Health in Cameroon's MOPH.

Originally from Cameroon, Dr. Njabo is a UCLA Pritzker Education Fellow and the Africa Director for CBI. He is also the UCLA/CBI focal point for UCGHI, where he helps to mentor GloCal Fellows across Africa. Dr. Njabo is currently Co-Investigator of a large UK-funded global trade, development, and environment hub and he supports the CBI’s School for Indigenous and Local Knowledge.

Dr. Ndip is an Associate Professor of Microbiology and the Deputy- Vice Chancellor in charge of Research, Cooperation and relations with the Business World (DVC-RCB) at the University of Buea. Dr. Ndip was trained as a Fogarty fellow at the University of Texas, Galveston (2001-2003, 2005). She is the Director of Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases at Buea, where she contributes to developing surveillance of influenza viruses and other diseases in the Central African Region.

Dr. Shoptaw is Director of the Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine; Professor in Family Medicine, Psychiatry, Biobehavioral Sciences; and Vice Chair for Research in Family Medicine. Dr. Shoptaw has served as PI or Co-PI on over 45 funded projects and he currently directs the NIH- funded UCLA Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services (CHIPTS).

Dr. Smith is the founding Director of the Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and a member of the National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration. He currently oversees numerous research projects and directs the research of a large number of graduate students, postdoctoral, and senior researchers on projects worldwide.