Dr. Kate Tulenko is a globally recognized health workforce expert and the founder and CEO of Corvus Health, a health workforce firm that offers scalable services from education to employment and Appleseed Education, an EdTech platform to digitalize, expand, and improve health professional schools. Corvus Health is leading the way in Artificial Intelligence change management in healthcare and its clients include universities, private equity firms, pharmaceutical companies, donors, and governments. Corvus Health has been recognized for its innovation by the International Organization of Employers and Seedstars and Appleseed Education was a winner of the Center for Advancing Innovation’s Global Health Challenge. Dr. Tulenko previously served as the director of USAID’s global health workforce project, as the coordinator of the World Bank’s Africa health workforce program, and on President Biden’s President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa. Dr. Tulenko teaches as an adjunct faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She serves on the board of advisors for VaxSyna (plant-based vaccine platform), the Global Business School Network, and the Ras al Khaimah Center for Health Workforce Development (UAE).  Her projects have given millions of people new access to health workers and saved governments hundreds of millions of dollars.

Professor Michael Moneypenny is the Regional Director (East Africa) at CIME. Professor Moneypenny has been involved in healthcare simulation since 2009 and has extensive experience in its operational and strategic aspects. He was an anaesthetist for 20 years and has had a number of roles in simulation-based learning, including Director of the Scottish Centre for Simulation and Clinical Human Factors (2012-2019), President of the Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) (2019-2021) and Associate Postgraduate Dean for Skills, NHS Education for Scotland (2021-2023).

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Michael is interested in human factors ergonomics as it applies to health and social care, optimising system performance and human wellbeing, as well as the acceleration of expertise, including the use of AI to meet those objectives

Dr. Achieng’ Aling’ is a clinician and global health specialist currently serving as Director of Healthcare Programs at the African Leadership University. She oversees initiatives that prepare the next generation of African health leaders (from policy shapers to health systems innovation). Her portfolio includes the ALU Health Collaborative, a pan-African program advancing African-led solutions in health employment, entrepreneurship, and ecosystems. Prior to this, she worked across health systems strengthening, Human Resources for Health, and policy spaces in Africa. She is passionate about bridging the gap between what the health sector needs and how we train for it.

Carene Roxanne is a global health professional and educator passionate about leveraging technology and innovation to strengthen healthcare systems in Africa. She currently serves as Program Manager for the Health Collaborative at the African Leadership University, where she leads program strategy and implementation, stakeholder engagement, monitoring and reporting, and financial management. Alongside this role, she is the Mission Curator – Healthcare, where she teaches, mentors, and supports students working on digital health and health entrepreneurship projects, including the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare solutions.

Carene has extensive experience in global health and research, with expertise spanning health education, women's health, and infectious and non-infectious diseases. She has worked with the Alliance for Healthy Communities, serving the  Rwandan Defense Force on HIV prevention, testing, treatment, education, and psychosocial support. She also contributed to the National Technical Working Group for Key and Priority Populations at the Rwanda Biomedical Center and has advanced her expertise in women's sexual and reproductive health rights and justice issues through her involvement with the Rwandan Women's Network.

She holds an MSc in Global Health Delivery from the University of Global Health Equity and a degree in Healthcare Management with a concentration in Global Perspectives from Southern New Hampshire University.

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Professor Angela Ine Frank-Briggs is a distinguished Medical Doctor and Professor of Paediatric Neurology and Neurodevelopmental Disorders at the University of Port Harcourt. She has served the university and the health sector in various leadership capacities, including Head of Department, Director of a Centre, and Provost of the College of Health Sciences. She is currently the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Development) of the University of Port Harcourt, where she champions research, innovation, and institutional growth.

Beyond the university, Professor Frank-Briggs has held key leadership roles in the hospital system, advancing child health and clinical services. She is also a pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, where she combines faith and service to inspire hope and transformation in her community.

Widely respected for her scholarship, leadership, and impact, she continues to make outstanding contributions to child health, research, innovation and institutional growth. Her career reflects excellence, service, and impact in health, education and society.

Prof. Abu Girma teaches courses in microeconomics, international finance, and development economics. His research interests are wide and varied and include issues dealing with the interactions between economic theory and economic policy, poverty and inequality analysis, fiscal policy and decentralization, global population aging and policy, and African political economy.