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Anatole Manzi

Anatole Manzi
Born	February 22, 1980
Nationality	Rwandan American
Known for	Academia, health systems research, quality improvement, social entrepreneurship, global health diplomacy

Anatole Manzi (born February 22, 1980) is a Rwandan American social entrepreneur, researcher, and global health leader serving as Deputy Chief Medical Officer at Partners In Health (PIH), a Boston-based organization founded by Paul Farmer, Ophelia Dahl, and Jim Kim. He is also the founder of Move Up Global and lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

During COVID-19 pandemic, Manzi led a Learning Collaborative, which aimed at strengthening contact tracing and expanded public health response through learning and exchange series targeted to expert implementers, an initiative of PIH's US Public Health Accompaniment Unit. Manzi relocated to the US in 2015 after 10 years with PIH Rwanda where he designed and directed various health systems strengthening interventions.

Early life and Education

Manzi was born and raised in Rwanda. His father was an agronomist and mother, a housewife and farmer. When he was a teenager, his uncle who lived in Kigali supported him to continue his studies at Lycée de Kicukiro. He then attended the University of Kibungo where he graduated with BA in clinical psychology in 2006. In 2011, while working at PIH Rwanda, Manzi received Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's scholarship, which covered his graduate studies at the University of Rwanda, School of Medicine and Health Sciences. His MPhil and PhD projects focused on the use of implementation science to strengthen health systems. Manzi's global health career was inspired by global health and social justice activists, Paul Farmer and Joia Mukherjee who became his career mentors.

Work

Partners In Health

Manzi joined PIH in 2005 and led one of the first HIV care and treatment clinics in rural Rwanda.[1] Since 2009, he designed new training approaches involving the shift from didactic classroom-based model to hands-on one-on-one mentoring and systems-targeted quality improvement, a major component of the Population Health Implementation and Training Partnership supported by Doris Duke Foundation. In 2015, Manzi relocated to Boston where he took on the Director of PIH's Global Learning and Training, then Director of Clinical Practice and Quality Improvement roles prior to his current position as Deputy Chief Medical Officer in charge of clinical quality and health systems strengthening. His work involves teaching at University of Global Health Equity where he leads the Global Health Delivery Leadership program. He also directs the pandemic preparedness and response course.

Move Up Global

In 2019, Manzi visited the school he attended as a child. He noticed that many children were laying in the grass with severe abdominal pain due to intestinal parasites. He also realized that many children had signs of malnutrition. In response, Manzi worked with community members and his friends to launch Move Up Global, a nonprofit organization striving to improve educational and health outcomes in resource-constrained communities. Manzi designed the Knot (Ipfundo) framework, which capitalizes on building a linkage between education and health systems. In countries like Rwanda, where rural schools have no nurse or counselor, Manzi argues that teachers have a better sense of what children and families need. Move Up Global trains teachers and community leaders to serve as an extended public health workforce tackling neglected tropical diseases, malnutrition and other poverty related conditions.

Research and academia

Manzi has authored or co-authored several research and op-eds articles. He holds academic affiliations with Harvard Medical School, University of Global Health Equity. He is also a visiting faculty at Tufts University where he co-teaches a Global Health: A Practitioner's Approach to Real-World Problems course at Tufts University's experimental college. Manzi's research projects focus on innovative strategies to improve health systems, global maternal and child health, and neglected tropical diseases. His research work has been published in peer-reviewed journals including BMC journals, PlosOne, British Medical Journal, and Lancet.

Board service and affiliations

Manzi a member of the Board of directors at World Connect. He is also a member of the Equity Advisory Group for the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, an advisor at International Organization for Standardization, World Health Organization, and a New Voices Senior Fellow at Aspen Institute.

Speaking engagements

Manzi speaks to the issues related to health systems strengthening, health equity, education, and community informed solutions. He was featured in global health events including TEDX Skoll Conversations, World Economic Forum, and the United Nations General Assembly. He moderated the PEN-Plus In Action, an event that introduced a global partnership to fight severe, chronic NCDs. He is also a frequent speaker and panelist at Unite for Sight's Global Health and Innovation Conference.

Awards

Manzi received the 2022 CommCare Research and the Aspen Institute's Community First Catalyst Awards.

External links

• https://worldconnect.global/
• https://www.ihi.org/about/Pages/Equity-Advisory-Group.aspx#:~:text=Achieving%20this%20vision%20requires%20closing%20the%20gap%20in,credibility%20of%20IHI%E2%80%99s%20internal%20and%20external%20equity%20work.
• https://excollege.tufts.edu/
• https://www.aspenideas.org/speakers/anatole-manzi
• https://www.healthynewbornnetwork.org/member/manzi-anatole/
• https://www.mhtf.org/authors/manzi-anatole/
• https://www.thecantoncitizen.com/2020/12/31/manzi-pandemic-response/
• https://ur.ac.rw/?College-of-Medicine-and-Health-Sciences-CMHS