DrJakub Gajewski

Dr. Jakub Gajewski is the Director of the Research Programme of the RCSI Institute of Global Surgery. He is health sociologist with over fifteen years of research, teaching and project management experience. He has been involved in several population-based studies, including studies of young people’s well-being, diabetes and epilepsy conducted in over 50 countries worldwide. Recent work includes leading the COST-Africa study (2011-2016), which implemented on the-job-training of non-physician clinicians in Malawi and tested the supervision model for this cadre in Zambia. The evaluation of the project was done through a large scale randomised control trial. Currently he is working as the international coordinator and the lead researcher for the Horizon 2020 funded SURG-Africa project which builds sustainable surgical systems in Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania. He is also a co-PI on the Akazi project addressing the need for functional breast and cervical screening services in rural Malawi. He has written extensively on human resources for health, implementation research evaluation and surgical systems in sub-Saharan Africa.