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Zambia US Alumni Exchange Association_ Dr. EMMANUEL M. MAKASA
Former NASA DEVELOP intern Dr. Emmanuel Makasa, an orthopedic surgeon from Zambia, who served in the DEVELOP program through Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the Laboratory of Global Health Observation, has been back serving his country since June 2009. As a Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Makasa earned a Masters in Public Health epidemiology. He continues to work in the public service of Zambia under the Ministry of Health as a Senior Registrar in Orthopedics surgery at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka. He also serves as honorary lecturer at the University of Zambia, School of Medicine, and is an ardent researcher who has greatly contributed to local medical publications through the Medical Journal of Zambia since his return. Dr. Makasa has been actively involved in public health outreach activities as co-founder of the non-profit organization Doctors Outreach Care International which provides the scarce volunteer health workers to underserved populations through mobile clinics in partnership with cooperate entities through their cooperate social responsibilities portfolio. He was recently appointed trustee of the Lusaka Orthopedics Research and Education Trust (LORET) under whose FLYSPEC program he constantly volunteers to fly to rural communities countrywide where he performs orthopaedic surgery, conducts clinics and teaching of local health workers being one of only ten orthopedic surgeons in the country. As ...From:usembassyzambiaViews:2 0ratingsTime:01:12More inNonprofits Activism

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