International Conference and Exhibition on Nursing
Jan 29-31, Flamingo, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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Ngoyi K Zacharie Bukonda
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Dr. Bukonda is full professor of Public Health Sciences at Wichita State University. He received his MPH (1989) and his PhD (1994) degrees at the University of Minnesota. He has lectured at various academic institutions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Zimbabwe and USA. He is member of and has assumed leadership roles in many scientific, professional and community organizations. He is author and co-author of more than 100 scientific presentations and about 3 dozens of articles/abstracts. His research interests include but are not limited to primary health care, policies of essential drugs, teamwork, hospital accreditation, quality improvement and safety of medical care, private health care entrepreneurship, management of community pharmacies, health of older internally displaced persons. He served as President of the National Association of Health Systems Administrators in the DRC (1980-1987) and as a consultant for Joint Commission Worldwide Consulting. He co-authored a study of the Zambian national hospital accreditation program (2001-2003). He worked with colleagues at the Botswana-Harvard Partnership Institute for HIV Research and Education on a “Male Involvement in the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS” study (2001-2002). He served as principal investigator of a USAID-funded two-year long HIV infection prevention project in Eastern Kasai, DRC (2004-2006). He was invited by UNESCO to speak at the 2008 Global Forum Research Seminar (Paris, 2008) and by CODESRIA to serve as a facilitator at the 2008 CODESRIA Institute on Health, Politics and Society in Africa (Dakar, Senegal: October 13-18, 2008). He is scheduled as a key speaker at the 7th International Conference on Epidemiology & Public Health (Melbourne, Australia, July 30-31, 2018).
Hag LK. Jun, JS, Kim, YJ. Roh, S. Moon, SS, Bukonda, NKZ & Hines, L. (2017). Mental health, substance abuse, and suicide among homeless adults. Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work
,14 , Iss. 4, 229-242.
Mpinga, EK., Macias, A., Hasselgard-Rowe, J., Kandala, NB., Félicien, TK,Verloo, H., Bukonda, N. K., & Chastonay, P. (2016). Female genital mutilation: A systematic review of research on its economic and social impacts across four decades. Global Health Action, 9: 31489.
Mpiana, AB, Mpinga EK, Verloo, H., Tshilonda, JCB, Chastonay, P. Bukonda, NKZ, Kandolo, T. (2015). Risk factors of Human African Trypanosomiasis in Mbuji Mayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. International Journal of Tropical Disease and Health 5(3): 190-208.
Mpiana, ab, Mpinga EK, Ngianga-Bakwin, K., Kandolo T., Bukonda, NKZ, Chastonay, P. (2015, December). Estimating the costs of torture: Challenges and Opportunities. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 13 (6): 567-581.
Kalambay, K, Sangwa, PK, Bukonda, NKZ (2015). Émergence des associations francophones de santé publique en Afrique de 1984 à 1994. In Audibert, M. & Kondji Kondji, D. (eds.) (2015). Le développement sanitaire en Afrique francophone au 21e siècle. Paris: Harmattan, 61-70.
Bukonda, NKZ (2017). Impact of forced displacement on the well-being of older internally displaced persons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Accepted Oral Presentation. 5th World Geriatrics and Gerontology Congress, Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk, Japan, December 4-6, 2017.
Bukonda, NKZ (2017). Insights into a United States of America-based Congolese Diaspora organization’s initiative to establish and operate a health center in favor of a community of internally displaced persons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Political and social motivators, milestones, facilitators and inhibitors”. Accepted e-Poster. 2017 Medical Sociology Congress | Atlanta, USA (September 26-27, 2017).
Bukonda, NKZ (2017). Impact of Primary Health Care Strategies and Initiatives on the Well-Being of Vulnerable Populations in Resources-Constrained Countries. Oral Presentation. 2017 Annual Conference of Leja Bulela, INC, Washington, DC, June 29-July 2, 2017.
Bukonda, NKZ (2017). Provision of Pharmaceutical Care by Nurse-Owned Private Community Pharmacies in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the CONGO. Accepted, but not presented paper. 28th International Conference on Family Nursing and Healthcare, September 11-13, 2017 San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Munguya, A. & Bukonda, NKZ (2016). Grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to Novus Orsa Ministries, Inc. (NOM) (2015). (HUD Rapid re-housing grant King’s Young Adults Homeless Program (KYAHP) (Awarded - $ 85,000).
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