Faculty and staff

Lisa Avery
Director, African operations and initiatives/Associate professor 
204-272-3150
lisa.avery@umanitoba.ca

Parinita Bhattacharjee 
Director, programs/Assistant professor

Andrea Blanchard
Assistant professor

James Blanchard
Scientific director/Professor

Ties Boerma
Canada Research Chair in Population and Global Health/Professor

Faran Emmanuel
Associate director, technical collaborations/Associate professor
204-975-7784
faran.emmanuel@umanitoba.ca

Shivalingappa Halli
Senior advisor/Professor

Shajy Isac
Assistant professor

Krishnamurthy Jayanna
Assistant professor
krishnamurthy.jayanna@umanitoba.ca

Lisa Lazarus
Assistant professor

Robert Lorway
Director of education, Institute for Global Public Health/Canada Research Chair in Global Intervention Politics and Social Transformation/Professor

Ramesh Banadakoppa Manjappa
Assistant director, research and knowledge translation/Assistant professor

Leigh McClarty
Assistant professor

Dessalegn Melesse
Assistant professor
dessalegn.melesse@umanitoba.ca

Stephen Moses
Professor

Souradet Shaw
Canada Research Chair Program Science and Global Public Health/Assistant professor

Kristen Stafford
Associate professor
kristen.stafford@umanitoba.ca

Reynold Washington
Associate professor

Fernando Wehrmeister
Assistant professor
fernando.wehrmeister@umanitoba.ca

Samantha Chymy
Program support coordinator
samantha.chymy@umanitoba.ca

Shipra Goyal
Finance/administration assistant
shipra.goyal@umanitoba.ca

Doris Kuzma
Director finance and administration
204-977-5678
doris.kuzma@umanitoba.ca

Shirleen Olazo
Accounting assistant
204-789-3973
shirleen.olazo@umanitoba.ca

Helen Sokoloski
Administrative assistant
204-789-3312
helen.sokoloski@umanitoba.ca

Stella Leung
Information technologist
204-272-3153
stella.leung@umanitoba.ca
 

Sergey Pavlov
Information technologist
204-975-7719
sergey.pavlov@umanitoba.ca

Aruni Tennakoon
Information technologist
204-272-3188
aruni.tennakoon@umanitoba.ca

Amanda Everton
Student research assistant
amanda.everton@umanitoba.ca

Roheema Ewesesan
Student research assistant
roheema.ewesesan@umanitoba.ca

Nicole Herpai
Student research assistant
niole.herpai@umanitoba.ca

Ka Chun Lai
Student research assistant
ka.lai@umanitoba.ca

Krisi Lambos
Student research assistant
lambosk@myumanitoba.ca

Maha Mehanna
Student research assistant
mehannam@myumanitoba.ca

Stephanie Melnychuk
Student research assistant
melnychs@myumanitoba.ca

Samantha Moore
Student assistant
moores2@myumanitoba.ca

Tanha Nunna
Student research assistant
nunnat@myumanitoba.ca

Bashiru Salifu
Student research assistant
bashiru.salifu@umanitoba.ca

Emma Sandstrom
Student research assistant
emma.sandstrom@umanitoba.ca

Kalada Green
Country coordinator, Nigeria
greenkalada1705@gmail.com

Tahira Ezra Reza
Country coordinator, Pakistan
tahira@cgph.org.pk

Dhiwya Attawar
Research associate
dhiwya.attawar@umanitoba.ca 

Esther Baum
Research associate
esther.shoemaker@umanitoba.ca

Pranav Bhushan
Research technician
pranav.bhushan@umanitoba.ca

Claudyne Chevrier
Research associate
claudyne.chevrier@umanitoba.ca

Elsabe du Plessis
Research associate
elsabe.duplessis@umanitoba.ca

Naveed Noor
Postdoctoral fellow
muhammad.noor@umanitoba.ca