Securing progress and extending impact: Implementation science and the HIV response (with the launch of the JIAS supplement on implementation research) Session 2: Reaching national scale: A focus on the Kenyan experience

José Tique is the FGH Technical Director, based in Maputo. Tique leads a multidisciplinary technical team that provides support to HIV, TB, and malaria prevention, and care and treatment programs in multiple provinces in Mozambique.

Eleanor Namusoke Magongo is a Paediatrician and Child Health Specialist with 15 years leading teams to implement, monitor and scale up paediatrics and adolescent HIV programs in Uganda. She successfully led the development of a decentralized HIV Drug Resistance (HIVDR) and third-line ART program in Uganda. She is the Principal Investigator of the Uganda Paediatrics ART (UP-ART) cohort in Uganda that utilizes real-world Electronic Medical Records (EMR) data to guide evidence-based implementation. She is the founder of the Paediatrics and Adolescent HIV Learning Collaborative for Africa (PAHLCA), a meeting that brings together Ministry of Health Paediatrics and Adolescent HIV programme managers and their respective country stakeholders from over 30 African countries to promote peer-to-peer learning. Dr. Magongo is also the founder of the International Paediatrics HIV/AIDS Symposium for Africa (WWW.IPHASA.ORG). She is a member of the WHO Adolescent HIV Service Delivery Technical Working Group (ASWG), Child Survival Working Group (CSWG,) a WHO HIVReSNet Steering Group. She is a member of the NIH-Fogarty funded Adolescent HIV Prevention and Treatment Implementation Science Alliance (AHISA) and is a fellow at the HIV, Infectious Disease and Global Health Implementation Science Research (HIGH-IRI) Institute at the Washington University in St Louis Missouri USA. She is a member of a member of the PENTA ID Network, a global scientific network dedicated to child health.

Twitter Handle: @MagongoEleanor LinkedIn: Dr. Eleanor Namusoke Magongo

José Tique is the FGH Technical Director, based in Maputo. Tique leads a multidisciplinary technical team that provides support to HIV, TB, and malaria prevention, and care and treatment programs in multiple provinces in Mozambique.

Dr. Cyrus Mugo is a Physician-Epidemiologist at Kenyatta National Hospital in Kenya. His research is focused on health systems strengthening in low resource settings to advance mental health and HIV care for children and adolescents. He has training in Medicine & Surgery and Global Health, and methods expertise in Epidemiology and Dissemination and Implementation Science (including quality improvement and stakeholder engagement). In over a decade, he has been involved in collaborative research across the HIV prevention-treatment-treatment support cascade for children and adolescents with and affected by HIV in Kenya and other countries in Africa. Highlights of his research include studies on HIV index case testing for children, implementation strategies for community roll-out of HIV self-testing among adolescents, and development of tools to guide transition of adolescents from pediatric to independent care. These studies directly informed HIV testing and treatment guidelines and policies in Kenya.

Eleanor Namusoke Magongo is a Paediatrician and Child Health Specialist with 15 years leading teams to implement, monitor and scale up paediatrics and adolescent HIV programs in Uganda. She successfully led the development of a decentralized HIV Drug Resistance (HIVDR) and third-line ART program in Uganda. She is the Principal Investigator of the Uganda Paediatrics ART (UP-ART) cohort in Uganda that utilizes real-world Electronic Medical Records (EMR) data to guide evidence-based implementation. She is the founder of the Paediatrics and Adolescent HIV Learning Collaborative for Africa (PAHLCA), a meeting that brings together Ministry of Health Paediatrics and Adolescent HIV programme managers and their respective country stakeholders from over 30 African countries to promote peer-to-peer learning. Dr. Magongo is also the founder of the International Paediatrics HIV/AIDS Symposium for Africa (WWW.IPHASA.ORG). She is a member of the WHO Adolescent HIV Service Delivery Technical Working Group (ASWG), Child Survival Working Group (CSWG,) a WHO HIVReSNet Steering Group. She is a member of the NIH-Fogarty funded Adolescent HIV Prevention and Treatment Implementation Science Alliance (AHISA) and is a fellow at the HIV, Infectious Disease and Global Health Implementation Science Research (HIGH-IRI) Institute at the Washington University in St Louis Missouri USA. She is a member of a member of the PENTA ID Network, a global scientific network dedicated to child health.

Twitter Handle: @MagongoEleanor LinkedIn: Dr. Eleanor Namusoke Magongo

José Tique is the FGH Technical Director, based in Maputo. Tique leads a multidisciplinary technical team that provides support to HIV, TB, and malaria prevention, and care and treatment programs in multiple provinces in Mozambique.