Profiles And Contributions To This Article

Factors associated with intimate partner violence among pregnant rural women in Rwanda

Joseph Ntaganira

qualifications: MD

contribution: original concept, designed the project, devised survey tool, collected data, contributed to drafts

position: Head of epidemiology and biostatistics

Adamson Muula

qualifications: MPH

position: Lecturer

Adamson S. Muula is a medical doctor and public health practitioner at the University of Malawi College of Medicine. He graduated with a medical degree from the University of Malawi, a Master of Public Health from Loma Linda University, California, Diploma in Palliative Care from Makerere University and is Board Certified Public Health Practitioner by the (American) National Board of Public Health Examiners. He is founder member of the Forum for African Medical Editors (FAME), has served as Associate-Editor of the Malawi Medical Journal and was elected to the Board of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). Dr Muula has published over 140 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His main interests are communicable diseases, health systems and medical education.

Seter Siziya

qualifications: PhD

position: Associate professor

Zambia

Professor Seter Siziya has the following degrees and status: BA-Ed (Mathematics), MSc (Medical Statistics), PhD (Biology), DLSHTM, and CStat. He is currently a Professor of Medical Biostatistics in the School of Medicine of the University of Zambia. Research interests include non-communicable diseases, including tobacco smoking. He worked for ten years in the Tropical Diseases Research Centre, Ndola, Zambia, rising from the post of a Staff Development Fellow to that of a Senior Scientific Officer in statistics; then moved to the University of Zimbabwe where he again worked for ten years rising from the post of a Lecturer to that of a Senior Lecturer. Since 2001 he has been working for the University of Zambia, rising from the Post of a Senior Lecturer to that of a Professor of medical biostatistics. He has published over 170 papers in peer reviewed journals.