Esther Mwaikambo
Esther Daniel Mwaikambo (born 1940) is a Tanzanian medical doctor. She is a senior paedriatician and Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at the Hubert Kairuki Memorial University.[1]
Life
[edit]Mwaikambo graduated MD from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in 1969. As Tanzania's first female doctor, the Swahili newspaper Uhuru profiled her in a series 'women of today's Tanzania'.[2] She gained a Master of Medicine (Paediatrics) from the University of Dar es Salaam in 1977. In 1982 she gained a Diploma in childhood infectious dieases and immunology from the Institute of Child Health in London, and in 1995 she gained a Certificate in Behavioural Sciences from Harvard University.[1]
In 1987 Mwaikambo founded the medical women association of Tanzania, using the association to drive Tanzania's breast cancer program.[3]
From 2001 to 2012 Mwaikambo served as chair of the Board of Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA).[4] In October 2009 she was Harvard Distinguished Africa Lecturer, lecturing on the challenges of establishing a medical university in Tanzania.[5] As President of the Tanzania Academy of Science, Mwaikambo called for Tanzanian media to promote local scientific innovations.[6]
In 2018 Esther Mwaikambo was elected as an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[7][3]
Works
[edit]- 'A Review of Maternal and Child Health Services in Rural Tanzania'
References
[edit]- ^ a b Professor Esther Mwaikambo, Maternity Africa, October 7, 2016. Accessed March 19, 2016.
- ^ T. N. Mshuza, Uhuru, February 13, 1971. Cited in Andrew Ivaska (2011). Cultured States: Youth, Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar Es Salaam. Duke University Press. pp. 114, 237. ISBN 978-0-8223-4770-5.
- ^ a b De Esther D. Mwaikambo, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- ^ Donald Mmari and Samuel Wangwe, eds., Research and Policy Nexus: Perspectives from Twenty Years of Policy Research in Tanzania, 2017.
- ^ Jon Chase, Wanted: Doctors for Africa, The Harvard Gazette, October 28, 2009. Accessed March 19, 2020.
- ^ Media challenged to promote local scientific innovations, IPP Media, September 1, 2018.
- ^ Middlebury President Laurie Patton Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Middlebury College News and Events, April 18, 2018. Accessed March 19, 2020.