Catherine Chunda Liyoka

Catherine Chunda Liyoka

Dr/Consultant Paediatrician

Dr Catherine Chunda-Liyoka- BScHB, MBChB (UNZA); MMed (UNZA); MScID (University of London); Cert (University of Washington) PhD(s) (University of Bergen)

She is a Consultant Paediatrician: Paediatric Haematology Department; Paediatric Infectious Disease Department, at the University Teaching Hospitals– Children’s Hospital (UTHs-CH) in Lusaka, Zambia.

Clinician: providing specialised paediatric clinical care to complicated haematological and infectious diseases, focusing mainly on Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), Haemophilia, Aplastic anaemia, HIV and Tuberculosis.

Honorary Lecturer: University of Zambia (UNZA)School of Medicine. Honorary Fellow: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) -International Public Health.

Ministry of Health (MOH): SCD focal person and taskforce chair; member of the Haemophilia taskforce; Supervisor, Mentors and Trainer of different cadres of health workers; National trainer and mentor in Paediatric SCD, HIV, Infection Prevention and Palliative care.

Research interests: Blood disorder, paediatric malignancies, Infectious diseases, public health and implementational research.

Zambia-PI/Researcher: Principal Investigator (PI), Co-PI, Program Director (PD), CO-PD of both research and training collaborations.
National Co-ordinator for the American Society of Haematology (ASH) newborn screening consortium (CONSA); SickleInAfrica registry; ARISE; PACTS; AFREhealth, SPARKLE Sickle Cell Ontology Network (SCDO) and the SPARKLE clinical trial

Memberships: International member of the ASH international member committee (ASH-IMC); ASH; British Society of Haematology (BSH); European Haematology Association (EHA)

Consultant: Formulating of the HIV, cancer and now Haematology national guidelines and National strategic plan (SP); Evaluation of the Zambian National Paediatric HIV program; Program Director of a Community Outreach Paediatrics Nutrition Program; PEN Plus SCD expert group.

TWG: Africa CDC TWG for the development of Africa’s Continental SCD Control Plan.