Ronald H. Mataya, MD

I am currently a Professor in Global Health based in the Center for Leadership in Health Systems at the Loma Linda University School of Public Health. Before joining the School, I worked at the international head offices of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency(ADRA) in Silver Spring, Maryland, as the Director for Health Programs. I led a team of public health experts in over 15 countries in implementing different health interventions in family planning and reproductive health, HIV and AIDS, child survival and nutrition.

Prior to that I worked in my home country of Malawi as an obstetrician and gynecologist with special interest in women's health nationally and globally. As a result of this interest and my work in Malawi, I won a scholarship to study health policy and mangement as a Hubert Humphrey Fellow at the Emory Univesity Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta.

I have consulted internationally with USAID, DfID, the Global Fund and the World Bank in South Sudan, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Guyana, Nigeria, Libya and Uganda. At Loma Linda I teach several courses: 1. HPRO 567, Reproductive Health, 2. GLBH 516 HIV/AIDS: Implications to Public Health, 3. GLBH 550: Women in Development 4. GLBH 605 Seminar in Global Health 5. GLBH 607 Seminar in Global Maternal and Child Health

I was a Co-Principal investigator on a 5-year CDC/PEPFAR: "Supporting the Scale-up of High Quality Care in Treatment  Programs in Malawi" in a consortium with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Johns Hopkins University of Malawi Research Center and the University of Malawi College of Medicine. I am Principal Investigator  on a 2-year CDC/Public Health Evaluation study: "An Evaluation of Use of Dried Blood Spot Specimens for Viral Load Monitoring of Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi". These projects ended in July 2015.