CHALLENGE TB - Key Persons


Abbas Zezai

Job Titles:
  • Country Director

Ahmed Bedru

Job Titles:
  • Country Director

Anthony Abura

Job Titles:
  • Country Director

Bassey Nsa

Job Titles:
  • Country Director

Christopher Zishiri

Job Titles:
  • Country Director

Emmy van der Grinten

Job Titles:
  • Acting Deputy Project Director
Emmy is a medical doctor with 20 years of experience in specialized disease control programs (TB, leprosy and other Neglected Tropical Diseases) in Africa. She has experience in all aspects of TB control programs, specifically in program management, TB/HIV, M&E, capacity building, and mapping. Emmy enjoys working with Ministries of Health and different partner organizations in country. Emmy has worked and lived in Nigeria (13 years), South Africa (1 year) and Ghana (5 years). In Ghana she worked as the Program Director of a Global Initiative, supporting Ministries of Health (in Africa and Asia) with mapping of routine surveillance data, developing integrated plans for case management of NTDs and implementation of integrated interventions.

Erik Post

Job Titles:
  • Country Director

Gidado Mustapha

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Project Management Team
  • Project Director
Gidado Mustapha, MBBS, MPH & MSc, is a public health physician with over 16 years' experience in both clinical and programmatic management of TB. Gidado Mustapha, MBBS, MPH & MSc, is a public health physician with over 16 years' experience in both clinical and programmatic management of Tuberculosis, Leprosy & HIV. His experience is at various levels and settings from clinic, regional, national and international levels, program design, planning, implementation and monitoring and evaluation. His major competencies include program leadership and management, general TB & TB/HIV, PMDT, TB infection control & human resource development. He is a faculty member of two Nigeria Universities and the Harvard School of Public Health (Executive Continuous Medical Education on TB infection Control).

Huong Nguyen

Job Titles:
  • Country Director

Imran Syed

Job Titles:
  • Country Director

Jean Pierre

Job Titles:
  • Country Director

Katya Gamazina

Job Titles:
  • Country Director

Mohammad Khakerah Rashidi

Job Titles:
  • Country Director

Oscar Cordon

Job Titles:
  • Country Director

Robert Makombe

Job Titles:
  • Country Director

Rosanne van Halm

Job Titles:
  • Financial Controller
  • Member of the Project Management Team
A year after graduating in 2003 as a bachelor in Economics Rosanne started working as an assistant in the financial unit of KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation. Rosanne van Halm has worked for KNCV Tuberculosis foundation for over nine years. A year after graduating in 2003 as a bachelor in Economics she started working as an assistant in the financial unit. In June 2009, after graduating a post-bachelor study in financial controlling, she started working as the financial controller in TB CAP and is now continuing in this position in TB CARE I and Challenge TB.

Victor Ombeka

Job Titles:
  • Country Director

Vishnu Matungwa Mahamba

Job Titles:
  • Country Director