Ms. Ndunguru holds a bachelor degree in Public Relations from University of Dar es Salaam. She has more than five years’ experience in Administration, Human Resource and Finance both at Private and donor funded projects. Prior to joining Sickle Pan-African Research Consortium (SPARCO)-Tanzania, she has worked as Audit Associate at a medium size audit firm. Joyce has experience in financial planning, budgeting and monitoring. Joyce currently works with SPARCO- Tanzania as Project Administrative and Finance Officer.

Dr. Ambrose is a pediatrician and child health specialist at Bugando Medical Centre teaching and consultant hospital. She serves as the paediatric haematologist for her hospital, which serves 40% of the country’s population. She devotes her clinical practice and research efforts to haematology, especially sickle cell disease. She has supplemented her clinical training with additional experience in haematology obtained from Boston Children’s Hospital as part of their global hematology/oncology (GLOBE) program and from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center where she completed an observership and a haemoglobinopathy counseling course. Emmanuela documented the birth prevalence of sickle cell disease and described the haematological and clinical evolution of the disease in Tanzanian infants as part of her master’s thesis and was a co-investigator for the Tanzania Sickle Surveillance Study (TS3) which obtained contemporary sickle cell prevalence data from a geographically representative sample in all regions and districts of northwest Tanzania. In 2017 she was awarded an ASH Global Scholar award to perform a clinical trial entitled “Stroke Prevention with Hydroxyurea Enabled through Research and Education (SPHERE)” which opened enrollment in April 2019. Currently she is working with SPARCO- Tanzania as Satellite contact personnel in Mwanza and Hydroxyurea Study Lead.

Dr. Tutuba is a Medical Doctor and master’s student working as a SPARCO-Tanzania Clinical Research Fellow within the Sickle Cell Program, Department of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences. She is involved in research and clinical duties, also in providing health education to Sickle Cell patients at clinics and the community at large. Tutuba holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Hubert Kairuki Memorial University and prior to joining the Sickle Cell Program, she worked as an Intern Doctor at Muhimbili National Hospital where she acquired outstanding academic and clinical skills. Tutuba also served as a volunteer at the Nyarugusu Refugee Camp under the Tanzania Red Cross Society as a clinician.

Dr. Ndalo is a clinician at Bagamoyo District Hospital and in charge of the SCD clinic. She is well experienced in research activities on both communicable and non-communicable diseases. Her focus is on care for patients with sickle cell disease. Currently, she is working as SPARCO Tanzania- Satellite contact personnel at Bagamoyo District Hospital.