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Dr. Ronda Chakolis, the Owner of RM Chakolis LLC, graduated in 2009 from the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, Twin Cities campus. In 2020, she received her master’s degree in public health from American Public University. Dr. Chakolis has more than 12 years of Pharmacy Benefit Management experience and over 5 years of experience as a Medication Therapy Management (MTM) pharmacist. She also serves as a part-time staff pharmacist at CVS Health. Dr. Chakolis is involved in several community services projects that address health disparities, including infant mortality and opioid abuse. In addition to her advocacy work, she also serves as a pharmacist member on the Minnesota Department of Human Services Drug Formulary Committee since 2022.
Hailed from Cameroon, he has a bachelor's degree in Economics and a Masters in Healthcare Services Administration and serving as Development and Community Outreach Director at Central Minnesota Habitat For Humanity. He founded and runs a nonprofit organization called Making a Difference International Inc. that helps children go to school in Africa, provide assistance to orphans and transitional housing to children abused, neglected, and abandoned. He is also an entrepreneur at heart and currently runs businesses in Uganda to try and create employment as well as spur business creation amongst the youths. He and his wife started a produce business that grow vegetables that are consumed by people from Africa here in the United States. He runs a a farm business Better Greens LLC which produces African green vegetables in Minnisota.
Dr. Casim Umba Tolo is the Director of Pharm-Biotechnology and Traditional Medicine Center (PHARMBIOTRAC), under the Eastern and Southern Africa Higher Education Centers of Excellence (ACE II) at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), Uganda. He has wide research experience and published articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters in the areas ranging from Conservation Biology, Ecology, Environment, Natural Resources Management, Green Enterprises for Rural Development and Livelihoods, Climate Change Adaptation and Indigenous Knowledge Systems. His responsibilities among others include; curriculum development, facilitating professional trainings, supervision of masters and PhD students, commissioned research/consultancy and conducting community outreach.
Dr. Tolo gained broad experience through undertaking a number of collaborative research and consultancy work (e.g. Lake Victoria Research Initiative, VicRes a SIDA-SAREC Program for East African Region) with regional and international colleagues in the areas ranging from Climate Change Adaptation and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Sustainable Agriculture, Climate Change Risks to Ecosystems and Biodiversity, Biodiversity Conservation Strategies in a Changing Climate, Primate Ecology and Conservation, Rangeland Ecology and Management, Human-Environment Interactions, Conservation and Management of Biological Resources, Solid Waste Disposal and management. For example, he consulted with Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)/International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), The Uganda National Commission for UNESCO (UNATCOM), The Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) and SNV-Netherlands Development Organisation. Dr. Tolo is a seasoned expert in project proposal development and project management. He has a vast experience in successfully managing multi-millions donor grants with excellent results. Currently he is the local promoter of the Uganda component of “Action Towards Reducing Aquatic snail-borne Parasitic diseases (ATRAP located in Western Uganda. ATRAP is a joint initiative between MUST, Uganda and the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), Tervuren, Belgium.
Dr. Tolo is serving/served on various boards and committees, among others: The National Committee of the Man and Biosphere (MAB) Programme, Uganda National Commission for UNESCO, Kampala-Uganda, The Board of Trustees of THETA-Uganda as a Chair Programmes and Research Committee, Director of Education and Environment of Anzoa Humanitarian Foundation Ltd, Adjumani, Uganda, Steering Committee on “Developing Herbal Alternatives to the Chemical Drugs used in the Dairy Sector, mainly with respect to tick control, but also animal diseases such as mastitis” of the SNV-Netherlands Development Organisation, under The Inclusive Dairy Enterprise (TIDE) Project.
Further details of publications on ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1807-3438
Contact Information:
Telephone: +256-772-837055
E-mail: ctolo@pharmbiotracfoundation.org
Skype: casim.tolo
