our Team

Andrew Argent, South Africa

Andrew is the former medical director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and a current member of the pediatric surviving sepsis and Pediatric sepsis definitions working groups of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He has a particular interest in the issues of providing pediatric critical care in low- and middle-income countries, and is deeply committed to research and clinical training in these areas. At the ASA, Andrew is responsible for communications and memberships.

Emmanuel Nsutebu, United Arab Emirates

Emmanuel is the Chair of the African Sepsis Alliance and a Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician working at Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi as Chief of Infectious Diseases. He worked at the Royal Liverpool Hospital as Associate Medical Director for Deterioration and Sepsis. He was also the Advancing Quality clinical co-lead for sepsis in the North West of England. He worked as clinical advisor for the NHS England (sepsis) and NHS Improvement (deterioration). He is also an investigator for the African Research Collaboration on Sepsis.

Faustina Excel Adipa, Ghana

Faustina is a Critical Care Nurse Educator, Dean of Students and Program Head at the School of Peri Operative and Critical Care Nursing Korle-bu in Accra, Ghana. She is a registered nurse with a qualification in midwifery and critical care, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Psychology, Master of Philosophy in Nursing, and a post-graduate diploma in education. Faustina is Chair of the Critical Care Nurses Group of Ghana and Vice President of the African Federation of Critical Care Nurses Association. At the ASA, she is responsible for communications and memberships.

Halima Salisu Kabara, Nigeria

Halima is Vice Executive Director of the African Sepsis Alliance and is widely seen as an exceptional nurse and an inspirational figure in the healthcare industry whose tireless interventions has continued to create platform and programs that will facilitate the delivery of quality, affordable, accessible, safe and sustainable healthcare in Nigeria, Africa, and the world. She is a Critical Care Specialist with special interests in multidisciplinary team approach to care, sepsis, research, and quality improvement in low-resource countries. She is the Immediate Past-President of the Nigerian Society of Critical Care Nurses (2008 -2018).

Jamie Rylance, Malawi

Jamie is a Reader in Respiratory Medicine and Global Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He is based in Malawi, at the Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Programme (MLW) where he leads research on sepsis. Specifically, he investigates the determinants of adverse outcomes from fluid resuscitation and is working on how to individualize treatments in resource-limited settings. He is co-director of the African Research Collaboration on Sepsis and is the treasurer of the African Sepsis Alliance.

John Appiah, Ghana

John is Senior Specialist in Pediatric Critical Care at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) and Vice Secretary General at the African Sepsis Alliance. He is the founding head of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at KATH and an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Child Health of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and the current president of the Pediatric Society of Ghana. He cares for the critically ill and seriously injured and children with life threatening conditions. He has special interest in sepsis and Quality Improvement in the care of the seriously ill child, resuscitation, ventilation, and management of sepsis.

Kamal Osman Margani, Sudan

Kamal is Executive Director of the African Sepsis Alliance and an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Gezira, Sudan. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Medicine London and a Board Member of the Middle-East Critical Care Assembly. Currently, he is the head of the training committee of the Adult Critical Care Medicine Board and the President of the Sudanese Sepsis Alliance.

Martin Peter Grobusch, Gabon

Martin is Financial Secretary at the African Sepsis Alliance and Head of the Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers (location AMC), the Netherlands. He has published more than 450 papers in peer-reviewed journals (h-index: 55) and contributes to several  journals in editorial functions as well as in various functions to several infectious diseases related societies.

Mervyn Mer, South Africa

Mervyn is a Principal Specialist and professor in the Department of Medicine, Divisions of Critical Care and Pulmonology at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a specialist in internal medicine, pulmonology and intensive care medicine and is Clinical Head of the multidisciplinary adult Intensive Care Unit at CMJAH. He is a previous President of the Critical Care Society of Southern Africa (CCSSA), and the current Chairperson of the Global Intensive Care Working Group of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). He is passionate about sepsis and sepsis care and serves as Advocacy Officer at the African Sepsis Alliance.

Shevin Jacob, Uganda

Shevin is an infectious diseases physician and Reader in Sepsis Research at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He has been conducting research on adult sepsis in resource-constrained settings (primarily Uganda) for over a decade and currently co-directs the African Research Collaboration on Sepsis (ARCS). He also supports activities focused on improving the quality of clinical management for severely ill patients in Uganda through a collaboration between the Ministry of Health and Walimu, an Uganda-based non-government organization he co-founded. He serves as a consultant to the WHO for various working groups to improve the clinical management of sepsis and other severe illnesses in resource-constrained settings. He is currently Secretary-General for the African Sepsis Alliance.

Marvin Zick, Germany

Marvin is General Manager of the Global Sepsis Alliance and has a background in Business Administration. He is responsible for all communications, websites, World Sepsis Day, World Sepsis Congress, and more.

Simone Mancini, Italy

Simone has joined the Global Sepsis Alliance as Coordinator Regional Sepsis Alliances in October 2019. He has an extensive background in public affairs, external communications, and project management which he will put to good use to coordinate the work of the Regional Sepsis Alliances and the implementation of national sepsis strategies.

KATJA COUBALL, GERMANY

Katja is graphic designer and social media manager at the Global Sepsis Alliance. She is responsible for nearly all visuals you see - from the ASA logo to the World Sepsis Day Infographics.