Dyness Kasungami

Dr. Kasungami guides MCHIP's contributions to the global child health agenda in three areas: 1) strategic leadership for child health; 2) integrated community case management; and 3) diarrhea disease prevention and control with focus on oral rehydration therapy and zinc use in diarrhea case management.

Born and raised in Zambia, Dr. Kasungami has a medical degree from the University of Zambia, a higher diploma in health systems management jointly offered by the Pan-African Institute for East and Southern Africa and the Royal Tropical Institute in the Netherlands, and a Masters in Public Health from Tulane University.

Over 15 years, Dr. Kasungami has worked as a clinician and a district health systems manager for the Ministry of Health in Zambia, where she also supported World Health Organization child health programs in the Southern African region. She also worked for USAID and the United Kingdom's Department for International Development in Zambia as a health development specialist managing several bilateral health and HIV projects and coordinating government-donor relations.