Kerry Mangold is a principal the Genesis Health practice and the Programme Director of the South to South Learning Network. She has over 14 years’ experience in sexual and reproductive health and rights work, with a strong focus on adolescent girls and young women. She has experience in developing, coordinating and managing the implementation of multi-sectoral national HIV prevention programmes, as well as in designing and conducting research, developing evidence-based policy documents, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring operational and financial compliance of project work for international donors and development partners. Kerry’s technical expertise is focused on HIV, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and key and vulnerable populations. Kerry has an academic background in business, science and arts with wide-ranging experience and exposure in the field of public health in South Africa and Southern Africa. Kerry holds a master’s in Anthropology form the University of the Witwatersrand, an honours in Microbiology from Rhodes and a postgraduate diploma in Management (Business Administration) from Wits Business School.

Ayesha Ismail is the Director of the Insight 2 Implementation offering under SSLN Her expertise is within turning evidence and research into usable projects. Ayesha has a special interest in sexual and reproductive health (SRH), and understanding how we can decrease inequities in SRH service provision and increase the quality of care. Ayesha has an honours and a master’s degree in Human Genetics, a bachelor's in Molecular and Cell Biology as well as a postgraduate diploma in Management, all from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Karabo is a Senior Project Coordinator at Genesis Analytics, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Currently, Karabo supports the South-South Learning Network which operates across 15 Countries in Africa. He has over a decade of experience in organising and coordinating workshops, conferences, and mass-volume events and meetings across South Africa and the African continent as a whole. He is passionate about Project coordination, especially in the HIV/AIDS space. Karabo has completed his B-tech degree in Business Communications from the Tshwane University of Technology, and has completed short courses in Social media marketing and Online reputation management from Shaw Academy, Effective public speaking and presentation skills from Southern Business School (SBS) as well as a Measuring and evaluation fundamentals certificate from Global Health e-Learning Centre. He has also completed an online short course in Project management.

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