The ADN Regional Coordinator (RC) role is a voluntary commitment for a two year period. The responsibilities of the RC are currently flexible and takes into consideration the individual’s expertise, capacity, and region. There are two types of responsibilities: Compulsory and Optional.
Compulsory activities include:
- The annual celebration of the International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths (IAD4AD) on 12 March
- Annual Report
- Annual General Meeting
- Affiliates
Optional activities include:
- Launch an ADN Country Chapter
- Networking and development
- Promoting monthly accountable talks of avoidable deaths
- Promoting future leaders for avoidable deaths by engaging with graduate and post-graduate students
- Promoting junior champions for avoidable deaths by engaging with primary and higher secondary schools
- Any other activities
To find out more and discuss becoming a Regional Coordinator, please email contact@avoidable-deaths.net .
Regional Coordinators (Current)
Dr. Azukaego Nnaji
A public health research specialist, Lead Consultant at JEBEHACH, Nigeria.
Dr. Fatima Akter
Assistant Professor in the Department of Meteorology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Dr. Inshah Malik
Associate Professor, Politics and International Relations, New Vision University, Georgia
Mr. Snehendu Koner
The Head of Business Development and Strategy at CliniMed LifeSciences in India.
Dr. Ranjan Datta
Canada Research Chair in Community Disaster Research and Assistant Professor at Indigenous Studies, Department of Humanities, Mount Royal University, Calgary. Alberta, Canada.
Mr. Zain Dueheney
Experienced Military Officer and expert on National Emergency Management in Belize. He served 14.5 years as a Military Officer within the Belize Defense Force, and worked at the National Emergency Management Organization as the Operations Officer. Zain is a Justice of the Peace, and lectures at Galen University in Belize in the Criminal Justice Program. He holds a MSc in Information Security and Business Continuity from UCAM and a BA from Galen University
Mr. Muhammad Asad Tahir
An Accomplished Civil Servant, Author, and Sustainable Leadership Advocate, Pakistan
Dr. Nikhil Paul
A skilled emergency physician with an MBBS and MD in Emergency Medicine, specializing in snake bite research and the prevention of venomous bite-related deaths. He has led several public health initiatives, including the Snake Bite First Aid Awareness Programme on IAD4AD in 2024, focusing on first aid education and reducing fatalities from snake bites and scorpion stings. Dr. Paul is expanding the reach of Avoidable Natural Deaths (AND) by establishing case stations in Kerala and Karnataka to combat snake bite-related deaths. He also conducts Paddle Sport First Aid Awareness programs to prevent drowning and water-related fatalities. Through regular first aid training and public health efforts, Dr. Paul is dedicated to reducing preventable deaths and enhancing emergency response in India. Connect on LinkedIn.
Dr. Franklin Babila Doh
Experienced Disaster Risk Reduction and Humanitarian activist in Cameroon
Mr. Sameer Kumar Jena
Sameer is a trained demographer with expertise in social change and development, specializing in training, monitoring, evaluation, and public health research. With nearly seven years of experience across diverse sociocultural settings in health, education, and social development, he has contributed to projects funded by the Government of India and international organizations. For the past two years, he has served as an Assistant Professor at the P.G. Department of Population Studies, Fakir Mohan University.
Dr. Grace Bahalen Mundu
an Assistant Professor in the P.G. Department of Population Studies at Fakir Mohan University, Odisha. She earned her Ph.D. in Population Studies from IIPS, Mumbai, and brings over a decade of academic and research experience. She is a published author of numerous articles and books and specializes in marriage dissolution, urban health, and gender studies, with expertise in advanced statistical and spatial analysis. Dr. Mundu has presented her work at prestigious national and international conferences and actively mentors research scholars.
Ms. Tahira Khan
District Emergency Officer in Pakistan.
Dr. Pukar Gupta
Dedicated medical graduate from Nepal and Founder of NHAFN.
Dr. Jean Kayira
Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) in Syracuse, New York, USA.
Carlos Primero D. Gundran
Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policies and Administration of the College of Public Health, University of the Philippines, Manila. He is also the Convenor for the Health, Emergencies and Disasters (HEAD) Study Group of the National Institutes of Health, UP Manila and the Director of the Institutional Building Division of the University of the Philippines Resilience Institute.
Dr. Arifatul Kibria
Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science at American International University-Bangladesh.
Dr. Jebunnessa Chapola
Faculty member of Mount Royal University (MRU), Calgary and SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina.
Previous Regional Coordinators
To find out about the previous Regional Coordinators, please click here.