Halima Bello-Manga, MBBS, MPH
HIGH IRI Fellow | Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital - Kaduna State University
Dr Halima Bello-Manga is a Hematologist and Assistant Professor working at Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital/Kaduna State University, Nigeria. She has devoted her clinical and research career to the care of children and adults with hematologic conditions, with emphasis on sickle cell disease (SCD). She is committed to improving the clinical outcomes of children with SCD in Nigeria and globally, particularly in preventing strokes, a devastating complication of SCD. She served as a site investigator for the NIH-funded multi-center randomized trial on primary stroke prevention in children with sickle cell anemia in Nigeria (SPRING). Following the successful completion of the SPRING trial, she established a stroke prevention program for children with SCD at BDTH, an academic hospital. She is currently funded through the Fogarty Emerging Global Leader Award (K43) to establish a similar program at a Community Hospital in Kaduna, Nigeria.
Dr Bello-Manga has attended the Vanderbilt Institute of Research Development and Ethics (2017 and 2019) and the American Society of Hematology’s Clinical Research Training Institute (2019). She is excited to have formal training in Implementation science to guide her in further expanding access to stroke prevention for children with sickle cell anemia in resource-constrained settings.