Fastone Mathew Goma

MD, Ph.D., CertPH

Fastone Goma is Registrar of the Health Professions Council of Zambia (HPCZ), an Associate Professor of Physiology and Cardiovascular Health, and the Executive Director for the Centre for Primary Care Research (CPCR), Lusaka. He is Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE), UK and also an appointed Senior Scholar to the WHO Collaboration Centre for Health Workforce Planning and Research, University of Dalhousie, Canada and the Founding President for the Zambia Heart and Stroke Foundation (ZAHESFO). He has studied International Public Health at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), USA, Tobacco Dependency Management at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Canada and Global Tobacco Control Leadership Program at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA. He is a recipient of the World Health Organization (WHO) World No Tobacco Day Award 2018.

Dr Goma was Co-Investigator on the African Tobacco Situational Analysis (ATSA) for Zambia and leader for the ZTCC which coordinated the activities for the initiation of Tobacco Control in Zambia. He is the Principal Investigator for the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation (ITC) Project in Zambia which has completed 2 Waves of country level data collection. He is Principal Investigator for the PEN+ Project (Enhancing care for more severe Non-Communicable Diseases at first level hospitals) and as a practicing physician, he actively administers Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) and a trainer of health workers in ART in Zambia. He works closely with colleagues at the Zambian Ministry of Health and other sectors of the government to facilitate the delivery of quality primary care services. His other research interests include clinical cardiovascular studies in hypertension, heart failure and atrial fibrillation. He has also done research in health systems looking particularly at human resources for health, considering factors in health workforce planning and use of community-based agents as members of the frontline team delivering quality health care to communities. He has published several peer-reviewed articles and presented in high-level national and international conferences.

Institution Link: https://www.cpcr-zm.org.zm/