He was the Foundation Chair of NCD Alliance Kenya and he is currently the Chairperson Board of Directors at East Africa NCD Alliance and Africa NCD Alliances Network. He was Board member of The Global NCD Alliance 2017 -2021. He is also a member of The World Health Organisation (WHO) working group on NCDs. He was member of Steering committee of the NIH/Forgarty PEPFAR NCD project between 2013–2018 and continues to pursue research in NCD HIV care integration. Prof Yonga has over 100 publications in high-impact peer-reviewed journals in cardiology and NCDs and has trained many NCD healthcare providers at primary and secondary levels of care.

He is an Honorary Professor of Medicine & Global Health at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (since November 2018) and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Muhimbili University of Health & Allied Sciences (MUHAS) where he has worked since 1991 teaching under and post graduate students. Professor Ramaiya is a Member of the Board of World Diabetes Foundation and Hon. General Secretary of Tanzania Diabetes Association (TDA), Tanzania NCD Alliance (TANCDA) and Hon General Secretary to Association of Private Health Facilities of Tanzania (APHFTA). He is currently working with children with Type 1 diabetes, gestational diabetes, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular complications of antiretroviral drugs in HIV/AIDS and Diabetes/TB interaction. Together with a team from NIMRI (Muhimbili) and LSTM, Prof, Ramaiya is also implementing a project on CD NCD Integration models (MOCCA Study) and metformin intervention in HIV patients with IGT (META Trial). He has also partnered with TDA, MoHCDGEC and PORALG to implement the Diabetes / NCD program in Zonal, Regional and District Hospitals all in Tanzania since year 2003. The program has obtained additional funding to expand and encompass NCD prevention & promotion, curative services in primary care, training, policy & legislations, monitoring & evaluation and operational research. From 2000-2006, Professor Ramaiya served as Chair of sub-Saharan Africa Region of International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and as a Vice-President (Global) of IDF from Year 2007 to 2012. During his tenure as the Chair of the sub-Saharan Africa Region, several tools were developed in three major languages: English, French and Portuguese. The tools included “Diabetes Declaration for sub-Saharan Africa Region, Clinical Practice Guidelines for type 2 Diabetes and Diabetes Education Manual for Diabetes Educators in the region. Professor Ramaiya he has tremendously contributed to a better understanding of diabetes in the African region through his research on the status of diabetes care in Africa and the economic costs of diabetes and its consequences. He has held many oral presentations and published more than seventy (70) peer reviewed articles.

A Fellow of the 1st African Heart Failure Course, by PASCAR and CARDIFF University; Fellow of the 51st International Seminar on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention; Associate editor of the Journal Public Health Reviews and Board Member of the African Network of NCDs (ANN). She is also a member of the New Investigators committee of the International Society of Hypertension (ISH). Neusa has led several publications among which include; Jessen N. Salt and Hypertension – Clinical Aspects. ISH Hypertension News, June 2021. Available online: https://ish-world.com/ish-hypertension-news/; Jessen N, Padrão P, Pinho O, Novela C, Moreira P, Damasceno A, Lunet N. Sodium content of bread from bakeries in Maputo, Mozambique: trends between 2012 and 2018. Public Health Nutr. 2020 Apr;23(6):1098-1102. doi: 10.1017/S1368980019003951. Epub 2020 Feb 27; Fontes F, Damasceno A, Jessen N, Prista A, Silva-Matos C, Padrão P, Lunet N. Prevalence of overweight and obesity in Mozambique in 2005 and 2015. Public Health Nutr. 2019 Dec;22(17):3118-3126. doi:10.1017/S1368980019002325. Epub2019 Aug 27.

President of (Obesity and Diabetes Association of Côte d’Ivoire (AODCI) and NCD Alliance of Côte d’Ivoire / Member NCD Alliance. He is the Head of, Department of Endocrinology Diabetology of Medical Commission at the University Center of Yopougon. He is the Director of the Specialized Diploma in Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition, an Award Residanat in medicine. He was the Secretary-General of the African Francophone Society of Diabetology (SFAD); Member Francophone Society of Diabetes (SFD) as well as American Diabetes Association (ADA). He was the Treasurer at African Society of Endocrinology Metabolism Nutrition (SAEMN) and the Board member of; Pan-African Federations of Endocrine Societies (PAFES), French Society of Endocrinology (SFE), European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), French Language Andrology Society (SALF), Endocrine Society (ES) as well as the International Society of Endocrinology (ISE).

He is the Director of Biotechnology and a Postgraduate Dean at Doctoral School of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of Yaoundé 1. He is a Consultant Physician at the National Obesity Centre of Yaoundé Central Hospital. He is an Honorary President of the International Diabetes Federation and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London, England. Prof. Mbanya has a wide span of expertise, but his current focus is on the clinical application of basic research and equity of access to care and education, and the integration of diabetes and endocrine diseases in the primary health care activities of developing countries. As President of the International Diabetes Federation (2009 - 2012), he championed the convening of the first-ever United Nations High-Level Summit on non-communicable diseases that was held in 2011. He is the 2004 recipient of the American Diabetes Association Harold Rifkin Award; 2010 recipient of the Most Hon. Hugh Lawson Shearer Memorial Lecture and Award of the University Outreach Diabetes Group, Jamaica; recipient of the 16th Dr. Mohan’s DSC Gold Oration Award, Chennai, India in 2009. He received the Philip Sherlock Award of the University Outreach Diabetes Group and the Lifetime Distinguished Award of Dr. Mohan’s DSC, Chennai, India in 2012. From 2006-2013, he served on the World Health Organization Expert Committee on the Classification and Diagnosis of diabetes. In 2004, he was nominated as a Member of WHO African Advisory Committee on Health Research and Development (AACHRD) for a period of four years. He is also a Fellow and Dean of Biological Sciences, Cameroon Academy of Sciences, Fellow of The Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy.

and reproductive health. He is founder and coordinator of Mahidol Public Health Association, a nonprofit active in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases in Burkina Faso and in Africa. Abdrahamane also leads the national chapter of the Global Young Professional Chronic Diseases Network. Abdrahamane is recipient of the Unesco-Merck Emerging Research Talent Award in 2015 in Geneva. He is the 2017-2019 Next Einstein Forum’s Ambassador for his country.