
Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde MBChB, MMed, MscHPE is the Deputy Director and Director Health Workforce Education and Development at the African Center for Global Health and Social transformation (ACHEST), Kampala, Uganda. Before this, she was the Director of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Coordinating Center at the African Center for Global Health and Social Transformation (ACHEST). Until December 2010 she was an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Radiology at the College of Health Sciences, Makerere University. She is an Honorary Associate Professor Of Radiology at the same University. She has served as external examiner at universities in Uganda, and Tanzania. She is a Fellow of the Foundation for the Advancement of Medical Education and Research (FAIMER). She is the Secretary General of the Network TUFH and President, African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth). Her main research interest is Health Professions Education and Body and Breast Imaging.

William Burdick, MD, MSEd, is Vice Secretary General of The Network: Towards Unity for Health, an organization of community oriented health professions schools and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. As the former Vice President for Education at FAIMER, he was responsible for creation of global faculty development programs for health professions educators. He has received awards for excellence in teaching, including the Lindbach Award and the Trustees Award in his capacity as Professor of Emergency Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. A graduate of Oberlin College, Weill Cornell University College of Medicine, and University of Pennsylvania, he completed residency training in Internal Medicine and is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and American Board of Internal Medicine.

Veronika is the Community and Young Leaders Development Coordinator at The Network: TUFH. She is also currently serving as Interim Operations and Programming Manager as Aricia De Kempeneer is on maternity leave. Prior to this, she served as the President of Student Network Organization (SNO) 2021-2022, representing almost 1000 health and allied sciences students passionate about extending the network of health beyond the medical profession. She’s been part of this organization since 2018 and part of its international board since 2019. Veronika has five years of experience in the field of student advocacy and medical education on local and international platforms. She is in her last year of medical degree at Maastricht University, where in 2020 she also obtained a MSc in Global Health. She has special interest in interprofessional health workforce education, mental health of the health workforce, creating accessible and socially accountable medical curriculums, and decolonizing global health. In her free time she loves to travel, read, and spend time with her friends and family.


Nicholas Torres, M.Ed, has over 25 years of experience in executive management, Nicholas works at the cross section between the private sector, government, and not-for-profits to align them toward collective social impact and change public policy. Nicholas has led and founded multiple for-profit and not-for-profit social ventures that are driven both by social impact and financial sustainability measures. Some of his launched social ventures include charter schools, an early literacy technology platform; school-based health centers; and community-based satellite college sites.
Nicholas serves in the capacity of Executive Director of The Network: Towards Unity for Health where he provides governance, strategy, and financial oversight. He also serves as CEO and President (Interim) for The Alliance for Health Equity Foundation. He is Co-Founder and manager of Social Innovations Partners which publishes the Social Innovations Journal. He teaches Nonprofit Leadership, Social Policy, and Social Entrepreneurship at University of Pennsylvania.