Regional Coordinators

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:

Optional activities include:

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.

 

 

Megumi Fujii

 

  Associate Professor of Disaster Nursing at the Japanese Red Cross Toyota College of Nursing in Japan, and a member of the Young Academy Committee of the Japan Society of Disaster Nursing.

 

 

Moza Al Marhoobi

Meteorologist and Tsunami Early Warning System Operator at Oman’s Directorate General of Meteorology.

 

Yi-Tzu Lin

 Assistant Professor at the Center for General Education, National Chi Nan University.

 

Jie-Ru Chen

Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at National Chi Nan University and also serves as the Dean of the College of Science and Technology

 

Fidan Hasanova

 Multidisciplinary professional with a background in engineering and risk management.

 

Chifundo Katanga

Lecturer at the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences and a Chartered Accountant

Dr. Fariha Haseen

  Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Reproductive and Child Health, and the Director of Centre for Gender and Women’s Health Research, Department of Public Health and Informatics at Bangladesh Medical University

 

 

 

 

 

Previous Regional Coordinators

To find out about the previous Regional Coordinators, please click here.