Medical Director, Executive Director & Co-Founder
Nundu Deaconess Hospital & JALI AFYA
College of Nursing
Nundu, Sud-Kivu, Congo, (Congo – Kinshasa)
Marx I. Lwabanya, MD, MHL, is the medical director at Nundu Deaconess Hospital (NDH), a rural hospital in Eastern Congo, Africa and senior Atlantic fellow for health equity.
Before coming to Nundu, he served with Hope Africa University as a lecture and Clinical Educator. His research focuses on improving maternal and newborn health in limited resources settings. He won the Brown Master’s Award for Professional Excellence 2017, for his effort to improve neonatal care by developing an online training for neonatal care nurses and establish a peer-mentoring program for at-risk mothers at the Van Norman Clinic in Bujumbura.
His time in Nundu, Congo a post conflict zone serving a rural population living in extreme poverty, facing malnutrition and political uncertainty has reshaped his interest to holistic care including physical and mental health care. He co-founded Jali Afya, nonprofit to address social determinants of health to improve health from its root causes. He has embarked on a journey to transform the health care system by building capacity of health providers in trauma informed care.
Lwabanya holds a Master’s degree in Healthcare Leadership from Brown University (2017), RI, US and Bachelor of Medicine from the Universite Officielle de Bukavu (UOB) (2009) - D R Congo.
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Monday, April 8, 2024
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time