Manal Ghazzawi

Dr. Manal Ghazzawi

Knowhepfoundation Sierra Leone
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Biography

Manal Ghazzzawi is a doctor of pharmacy, a public health specialist and a consultant clinical pharmacist (Fellow of the West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists). She is also a foundation fellow of the newly established Postgraduate College of Health Specialists in Sierra Leone. She is a health entrepreneur, CEO of Citiglobe Pharmacies Ltd, she is a preceptor involved in the training of graduate pharmacy professionals. She is also an executive member of the National Drug Expert Committee of the Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone (SL). In 2015, during the Ebola outbreak, she was the study pharmacist for the Phase II Chinese Ebola Vaccine Clinical Trial. Since 2018, she has become a member of national technical working group of clinical experts, where she contributed in formulating the national standard treatment guidelines and essential medicine list for 2020. She is also a clinical expert for the Sierra Leone AEFIs/AESIs Causality Assessment Committee. She has been involved in the fight against hepatitis and diabetes since 2014. In 2019, she established her own local NGO called the KnowHep Foundation SL, involved in mass immunization, awareness raising, screening and sensitization, to curb the spread of hepatitis in Sierra Leone. So far she has contributed in screening and vaccinating thousands of Sierra Leoneans against hepatitis.

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Honors and Awards

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Laureate Women in Africa Entrepreneurs 2020

WIA

For creating impact in my community as a health entrepreneur

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Most outstanding pharmacist

Women Mean Business

The first female pharmacist or health practitioner to be highly engaged in community awareness raising, screening and sensitization of neglected endemic diseases in Sierra Leone

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Best Community Pharmacist

Iminence Africa

Offering the best pharmaceutical care services to my community

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Pharmacist of the year

Pharmaceutical Society of Sierra Leone

Citiglobe Pharmacies Ltd is well respected by colleagues and it is known as the hub for competency and professionalism when it comes to community pharmacy practice. Citiglobe Pharmacies Ltd, is the first in the country to introduce public health interventions that have highly contributed in health promotion, prevention and protection.

Experience

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