Julie Makani

Julie Makani (born 1970) is a Tanzanian medical researcher. From 2014 she is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS). Also a visiting fellow and consultant to the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, she is based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In 2011, she received the Royal Society Pfizer Award for her work with sickle cell disease.

Quotes

• Thank you to WHO for selecting our consortium and we salute all nominees each of whom has made an incredible contribution to the scientific public health community. Thank you as well to the Government of Tanzania who supported and included the sickle cell disease as a priority condition in the non-communicable diseases programme.
  • Julie Makani said, (The Who, November 13, 2020)

• The ultimate thing for me, particularly as a physician scientist, is not just discovery, but also seeing the application of knowledge…into (an) improvement in health.
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• We are not making science for science. We are making science for the benefit of humanity.
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