Our Mission
Our mission is to make a lasting, positive impact on Zambia’s healthcare system by driving innovation through technology, research, and continuous medical education. We’re committed to launching voluntary projects that uplift the health of vulnerable communities and aim to be one of the most influential diaspora-led groups advancing healthcare delivery across the nation.
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Our Story
Our story begins in Zambia—a nation that has produced countless skilled and passionate healthcare professionals, many of whom now practice around the world. Among them are those who’ve carried with them a deep desire to give back to the country that shaped them.
One such individual is Dr. David Kazhila, a Cardiologist and Internal Medicine Specialist based in Ontario, Canada, with over 25 years of clinical experience. His vision of mobilizing the Zambian diaspora to improve healthcare back home gave birth to the Global Alliance of Zambian Healthcare Professionals.
Meet the team
Dr Joseph Yikona, Consultant Physician: FRCP(Ed), FRCP(Lond), DGM
Dr Yikona is a dual specialist registered in Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine. He is based on the Acute Medical Unit of West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Bury Saint Edmunds, UK. He is an active Designated Medical Practitioner supportive of local university trainees on non-medical prescribing courses. Until recently, he was a University of East Anglia Honorary Lecturer with tenure as a Learning Facilitator for the Physician Associates Master of Science program.
Yareka Mhango
Yareka Mhango (MSc. Accountancy and MSc. Healthcare Management) as Treasurer, is responsible for all the organization’s financial functions including accounting and audit . Her career spans more than 20 years of vast accounting and leadership experience in various industries. She is currently Chief Financial Officer of Phoenix Houses of New York/Long Island, Yareka also served as Interim CFO for Livengrin Foundation, a Philadelphia healthcare organization. She also held leadership positions in several sectors including, non-governmental organizations, mining, state and county government, and the legal industry, both in Zambia and the United States.
Dr David Gordon Kazhila
BSc( HB), MBchB( UNZA), FCP( South Africa), FRCP ( Canada). Dr Kazhila is a co-founder and past president of the Global Alliance of Healthcare Professionals. He is a Cardiologist and an Internal Medicine Specialist with more than 25 years clinical experience. Has previously held positions of Chief of Medicine and Chief of Critical care at the Ross Memorial hospital and also previously served on its foundation board of directors.
Dr Sebastian Chibale Benaya
MSc, FRCP Edin, FRCP Glas, CCDS. General Cardiologist and Internal Medicine Specialist at the Fredericton Chalmers Regional Hospital, Canada. Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Dalhousie University. Has been a board member at Papa’s Home, Inc. for 14 years. Papa’s Home is a Charitable Organization to Orphans operating in Zambia, Nigeria and Nepal.
Dr JMM Musonda
Practising family medicine Physician /head of clinical unit (family medicine) in the District Clinical Specialist Team and hospital clinical director/ coordinator of hospitals in Ekurhuleni Health District, Gauteng, South Africa. Also, a joint academic staff/ teaching family medicine physician at the University of Witwatersrand, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care. Involved in teaching and supervising research for family medicine undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Dr Lona Mwenda. MbCHb (Zambia), FCPeds (RSA), MMed Pediatrics (RSA), MPH international (UK), Paediatric Critical Care fellowship (Canada)
Dr Mwenda is a General Pediatrician trained in South Africa. She has experience working in child health systems in Zambia, South Africa and Namibia where high child mortality rates reflect the need for acute stabilization and critical care of the sickest children including a PICU (pediatric intensive care unit) to treat and monitor children with trauma or after undergoing surgery. Her interest in health systems strengthening stems from hopes that "no child should die for lack of proper health worker resuscitation skills, basic equipment, resources and PICU".
Dr. Pierre Dil CCFP (AM), FCFP Dip. ISAM
Main areas of expertise and interest are family practice, addiction medicine, and family practice education. Roles include Faculty Development and IMG support lead, UBC Postgraduate Family Practice /Victoria Site, Addiction Medicine Consult Service VGH, RJH, RAAC physician & Pandora clinic OAT physician.
