Accredited trainers
EUROPE
England
Peter Davidson is a consultant in public health in the NHS in Southampton and at the Wessex Institute for Health Research and Development. He had a previous career in general medical practice. His interests include systematic reviewing, health technology assessment, particularly clinical trials, and training for public health. He is a series editor for Health Technology Assessment.
Contact: peterd@soton.ac.uk
Mark Pickin is a clinical senior lecturer in health service research/public health at the University of Sheffield, and also works freelance as a trainer and facilitator. He qualified in medicine in 1986, and trained in general practice and public health medicine before being awarded a Medical Research Council fellowship in health services research. Mark is available to deliver courses in writing for publication for groups of academics, health care professionals and public health specialists, at all levels of training, in the North of England and Midlands.
Contact: mark.pickin@doctors.org.uk
Amy Scammell currently works as the research manager for Wandsworth Teaching PCT in South West London. She has a background in sociology and health services research which centres on primary, community and social care. In the past she has conducted research into health visiting, social and voluntary sector health and social improvement initiatives, diabetes, mental health and amputee rehabilitation. Amy also has experience of evaluating applied health initiatives and supporting both individuals and groups to develop studies and disseminate findings. Amy will be facilitating courses in the London area.
Contact: amy.scammell@wpct.nhs.uk or scammela@lsbu.ac.uk
Cate Scott is the business communications manager at Fourth Hurdle Consulting in London, a specialist consultancy in international healthcare economics, outcomes research, pricing and reimbursement. Fourth Hurdle takes a pro-active approach to maintaining high quality written output, and has experience of most of Tim Albert’s courses. Before joining Fourth Hurdle, Cate worked in higher education for 15 years, most recently at Imperial College, in the Centre for Educational Development. She has written for publication in a number of peer-reviewed journals.
Contact: CateScott@FourthHurdle.com
Ray Lowry: 
Tim Albert courses and books helped Ray to a successful service and academic career including publishing more than 50 peer-reviewed articles (plus the front cover of Nature). He was so impressed he became a trainer. This was the natural culmination to a career in dentistry and medicine, including time as a training programme director for public health. He was never a closet writer to begin with but the uplifted skills and interest also spun off into the media, onto the conference platform and into stand-up comedy. 
http://www.drlowrysocialmarketing.co.uk/


Scotland
Paula Midgley is a senior lecturer and honorary consultant at the Department of Child Life and Health, University of Edinburgh. She is an associate dean of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
Contact: paula.midgley@ed.ac.uk
Fiona Muir has a background in nursing, including a varied experience in general, sick children and as a specialist practitioner in general practice nursing. In 2001 she moved into nurse education at the University of Abertay Dundee as a clinical teaching fellow then subsequently as a nurse lecturer. In 2005 she developed her career and transferred into medical education where she currently works as a senior lecturer. She is a graduate of University of Abertay Dundee (1999) and University of Strathclyde (2001 MEd, 2009 EdD). Her research interest is in reflective practice.
Contact: f.e.muir@cpse.dundee.ac.uk
 
Wales
Jamie Hayes is director of the Welsh Medicines Resource Centre (WeMeReC), a director of the Welsh Medicines Partnership and honorary senior lecturer at the School of Medicine, Cardiff University. Jamie studied pharmacy at Cardiff. He worked as a clinical pharmacist in South Wales and New Zealand, worked for the National Prescribing Centre in Liverpool and 
 completed an MBA in 2011. His interests include medical education, influences on prescribing behaviour, evidence based therapeutics and lean thinking in healthcare. He runs regular courses, masterclasses, workshops and lectures for doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, pharmacy and medical students.


Spain
Jesús Esteban Hernández is an associate professor in the Epidemiology and Public Health Unit, Health Sciences Department, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid.
Contact: jesus.esteban@urjc.es
Sweden
Michael Fored is associate professor in epidemiology and director of research education at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. He worked as a certified nephrologist when he turned into epidemiological research in 1996. Current research interests are pharmacoepidemiology and general clinical epidemiology. Michael is available for courses in Sweden.


Switzerland
Matthias Egger is director of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland. He received his clinical training in Switzerland, studied epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and worked in the UK for several years. He is fluent in German and English. His research interests are in the areas of the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in resource-rich and -poor countries, diabetes, and in the methodology of systematic reviews and meta-analysis. Matthias has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles. He is a member of the CONSORT and STROBE groups to improve the reporting of randomised trials and observational studies and is an associate editor of the International Journal of Epidemiology.
Contact: egger@ispm.unibe.ch
Nicola Low is a professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She offers a three day version of the writing course in Bern through the Swiss School of Public Health plus (SSPH+). She is currently deputy editor of Sexually Transmitted Infentions and on the editorial board of the CochraneSexually Transmitted Diseases Resarch Group. Her research interests are in the area of sexually transmitted infections, reproductivce health, infectious disease epidemiology and systematic reviews. She obtained her clinical special accreditation, in genitourinary medicine and public health and and MSc in communicable disease epidemiology, in the UK
Contact: low@ispm.unibe.ch

Jürgen Barth is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland. He qualified in psychology in 1993, and was trained in cognitive behavioral therapy before doing research on psychology and health at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His research interests are clinical health psychology, the influence of psychological factors on the course of somatic disorders and  systematic reviews. Jürgen is available to deliver courses in writing for publication for groups of academics, health care professionals and public health specialists, at all levels of training, in German-speaking countries. More information on the course is available at www.juergen-barth.de; contact: mail@juergen-barth.de
 

Netherlands
Dr Frank de Vries currently works as an epidemiologist at Utrecht University and as a pharmacist in the Maastricht University Medical Centre+. He started a PhD in pharmacoepidemiology at Utrecht University in 2002. Four years later, he followed one of Tim’s last writing courses. Since the completion of his dissertation in 2007, he has worked for the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in London UK. He has obtained several research grants and prizes, including a Dutch “NWO Veni” fellowship and the Kohn prize from the UK National Osteoporosis Foundation. More information on the course is available at www.frankdevries.com
ASIA
China
LIN Dongtao is currently a teacher of English at the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Sichuan University, and also works as a copyeditor for the Chinese Journal of Evidence-based Medicine. She attended the intensive training for the biomedical writing and editing program run by the China Medical Board of New York in 2004. She also attended Tim Albert’s course for writers in 2006 in Singapore. She is now offering the editing course to the English majors in Sichuan University and the writing course to the doctors and researchers working at the West China Hospital and the Women and Children’s Hospital, Sichuan University.
Contact: dongtao.lin@gmail.com
Singapore
CHONG Yap-Seng is a Senior Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist at the National University Hospital (NUH), Singapore. He is consultant -in-charge of the NUH Delivery Suite and has special interest in promoting breastfeeding and natural childbirth. As Head of the Medical Education Unit, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS), he is also involved in educational leadership and scholarship and has won several teaching excellence awards. His research interests include breastfeeding and early childhood programming, and the use of misoprostol in the third stage of labour. Having a special interest in medical writing, he founded the NUH-NUS Medical Publications Support Unit in 2003 and is an associate editor of theSingapore Medical Journal. Yap-Seng reviews for various international journals including The Lancet, the BMJ, and the Cochrane Collaboration.
Contact: obgcys@nus.edu.sg
NORTH AMERICA
Jocalyn Clark is a public health scientist and professional medical editor based in Toronto, Canada. She will run courses in North America. Following an MSc and PhD in Public Health, Jocalyn became editorial registrar at the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in London UK, and was appointed assistant editor in 2003. Since 2005 she has been an associate editor of the BMJ. Jocalyn has written extensively in the areas of women’s health, global health, academic medicine, and scientific publishing. She is a director of knowledge translation at St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, and is on the editorial policy committee of the World Association of Medical Editors.
Contact: j.clark@utoronto.ca
 
AFRICA
With thanks to WHO/TDR for their support in training the following people:
Burkina Faso
Dr Seni Kouanda
Médecin Epidémiologiste
Institut de Recherche en Sciences de
la Santé
 
Ethiopia
Prof Yemane Berhane Tsehay
Ethiopian Journal of Health
Development
 
Ghana
Dr Margaret Gyapong
Dodowa Health Research Centre
Ghana Health Service
Dodowa, Greater Accra Region
 
Dr Josephine Ocran
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research
University of Ghana
Email: jocran@noguchi.mimcom.net       
 
Kenya
Ms Phoebe Wambui Mukiria
Trypanosomiasis Research Center
Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
Kikuyu
Malawi
Ms Mzamose Gondwe
Biochemistry Department
College of Medicine
Blantyre
Dr Ademola J Ajuwon
University of Ibadan
Department of Health Promotion & Education
Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine
African Reg Health Education Center
Ibadan, Oyo State
 
Mr David Olubukola Oyejide
African Journal of Medicine and medical Sciences
Institute for Advanced Medical Research & Training
College of Medicine, University of Ibadan,
Ibadan, Oyo State
South Africa
Dr Ntambwe Malangu
Senior Lecturer
South African Family Practice Journal
Pretoria RSA
(English/French)
Tanzania
Ms Beverly Msambichaka
Researcher & Technical Editor
Ifakara Health Research & Development Centre
Dar es Salaam
Uganda
Associate Professor George Nasinyama
Deputy Director Research & Publications
School of Graduate Studies
Makerere University
Kampala
Zimbabwe
Dr Takafira Mduluza
 Biochemistry Department
University of Zimbabwe
Email:
 
 
With thanks to WHO/Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office for their support in training the following people:
Egypt
Dr Alaa Hammad Abou-Zeid
Technical Officer, Research Policy and Cooperation Unit/EMRO
Cairo
Email: AbouzeidA@emro.who.int
Mrs Fiona Curlet
Editor, Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
EMRO/WHO
Cairo
Email: CurletF@emro.who.int
Professor Maisa Nasr Farid
Professor of Pediatrics
Ain Shams University, Postgraduate Institue of Child Studies
Cairo
Email: maisafarid@hotmail.com
Ms Jane Nicholson
Editor, EMRO/WHO
Cairo
Email: NicholsonJ@emro.who.int
Iran
Dr Sepideh Arbabi Bidgoli
Assistant Professor of Toxicology and Pharmacology
Faculty of Pharmacy, Islamic Azad University
Tehran
Email: arabisp@razi.tums.ac.ir or drsab69@yahoo.com
Lebanon
Dr Rony Zeenny
Clinical Assistant Professor
Lebanese American University
Beirut
Email: rony.zeenny@lau.edu.lb
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Dr Wiam Abdulaziz Alashek
Assistant Professor in Community Medicine
Alfateh University
Email: wiam4ash@yahoo.com
Morocco
Professor Driss Belghyti
Professor-researcher
University Ibn Tofail, Department of Biology
Kenitra
Email: belghyti@hotmail.com
Pakistan
Dr Zaeem ul Haq
Senior Team Associate – BCC (PAIMAN Project)
Johns Hopkins University Center for Communications Progams
Islamabad
Email:zaeemdr@gmail.com
Sudan
Dr Habab Khalid El Kheir
Consultant Researcher
Epidemiological Laboratory
Troppical Diseases Hospital
Khartoum
Email: hababk@hotmail.com or hababk@gmail.com
Dr Mohamed Abdur Rab
WHO Resresentative’s Office
Khartoum
Email: Abdurrabm@sud.emro.who.int
Tunisia
Dr Ikram Guizani
Head of Laboratory of Epidemiology and Ecology of Parasitic Disease
Institut Pasteur de Tunis
Email: iguizani@yahoo.com
Republic of Yemen
Professor Ali Mohamed Assabri
Professor of Community Medicine
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Sana’a University
Email: aliassabri@yahoo.com