Fastone Mathew Goma

Principal Investigator, ITC Zambia

Professor of Physiology and Cardiovascular Health

Director, Centre for Primary Care Research, Lusaka (CPCR)

Fastone Goma is Professor of Physiology and Cardiovascular Health, and the Director for the

Centre for Primary Care Research (CPCR), Lusaka. He is Fellow of the Royal College of

Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE), UK and Member of the National Academy of Medicine, USA.

He is the Founding President for the Zambia Heart and Stroke Foundation (ZAHESFO) and

current President of the African Heart Network(AHN). 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 Zambia Tobacco Control Consortium 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) in Zambia and 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

front line team delivering quality health care to communities. He has published several peer-

reviewed articles and presented in high-level national and international conferences.