Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE
Marko Cephas Hingi
Tanzania Rural Health Movement
P.o.Box 1464,Bugando-Mwanza, Tanzania
Skype marko.hingi1
Mobile +255 788 668 490, [email protected]
Fax +255 736 605 134, www.tanzaniaruralhealth.info
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PERSONAL PARTICULARS

Surname Hingi
First Name Marko
Middle Name Cephas
Date of Birth 12th February 1988
Marital Status Married
Sex Male
Nationality: Tanzanian
Qualification Medical Doctor
Designation Medical Doctor
Languages Swahili, English

PROFILE

Highly motivated, versatile and creative medical Doctor with several years’ experience
working within both established and novel medical institutions and programs, including
Tanzania Medical Association, International Youth Alliance for Family Planning, Tanzania
Rural Health Movement and International Federation of Medical Students Association.

Proven management, operations, and communications skills, as well as a strategic
innovator and committed change agent. As Founder of the Tanzania Rural Health
Movement, and in partnership with Trek Medics International, Marko attracted
international acclaim and was featured on CNN’s Vital Signs with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, BBC
News and DW Radio with Ross Velton together with MainPost by Ramona Seitz.

EDUCATION

Medical Internship March 2017

Bugando Medical Centre-Mwanza, Tanzania

Leading Change Fellowship Jan. 2017

University of Cambridge, England

Doctor of Medicine Nov. 2015

Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences-Bugando, Mwanza, Tanzania

Medical Peace Work Apr.2014

International Physician Prevention of Nuclear Weapons, Nairobi, Kenya

High School Feb.2009

Iyunga Technical Secondary School, Mbeya, Tanzania

Ordinary level Secondary School Oct.2006

Makambako High School, Njombe, Tanzania

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS, MEMBERSHIP AND AWARDS 2017
Medical Council of Tanganyika-Medical Licence 2017
Associate Fellow, The Royal Commonwealth Society-Recipient 2016
Supadel Sponsorship-Recipient 2015
Queens Young Leaders Award-Recipient 2015
INASP Open Access Week Grant-Recipient 2015
INASP Open Access Week Grant-Recipient 2013
BE FORWARD 25 Cars Christmas Campaign-Recipient 2010-2015
MoHCDGEC Medical Students Grant-Recipient 2009
Certificate of Academic Excellence in Advanced Chemistry-Recipient 2006
Microcomputer Applications-Recipient 2006
Certificate of Academic Excellence in Basic Chemistry-Recipient 2006
Certificate of Academic Excellence in Basic Mathematics-Recipient

TRAINING COURSES AND CONFERENCES

Oral Presenter 2017
9th BMC/CUHAS Scientific Graduation Conference, Mwanza, Tanzania 2017
Oral Presenter 2016
International Road Federation African Regional Meeting, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2016
Oral Presenter 2016
8th BMC/CUHAS Scientific Graduation Conference, Mwanza, Tanzania 2016
Paediatric Emergency Medicine Training 2016
International Conference of Emergency Medicine, Cape Town, South Africa 2015
Co-Oral Presenter 2014
International Conference on Emergency Medicine, Cape Town, South Africa 2013
Oral Presenter 2013
International Conference of Public and Global Health, Dodoma, Tanzania 2012
Helping Babies Breath Master Training
International Conference of Public and Global Health, Dodoma, Tanzania
Oral Presenter
7th BMC/CUHAS Scientific Graduation Conference, Mwanza, Tanzania
Medical Peace Work Skills Training
IPPNW African Regional Meeting, Nairobi, Kenya
Entrepreneurship training
Tanzania Medical Students Association, Mwanza, Tanzania
Oral Presenter
6th TAMSA International Scientific Conference, Mwanza, Tanzania
Participant
Liver Pathology International Symposium, Mwanza, Tanzania

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
Founding Executive Director, July 2014-Dec.2017
Tanzania Rural Health Movement, Mwanza, Tanzania

 Develop strategy and tactics to reach communities
 Daily organizational administration
 Liaison for International funding and partnership
 Develop community health projects and research studies
 Mentoring Volunteers

Wound Care Project for Street Children Director, March 2015-Dec.2016
Tanzania Rural Health Movement, Mwanza, Tanzania

 Attending street children with wounds and other medical conditions
 Develop research studies
 Project Fundraising
 Assist in outreach preparation and execution
 Assisting in Data collection
 Project liaison to international partners and funding

Mwanza Community First Response Project Director, September 2015-Current
Tanzania Rural Health Movement, Mwanza, Tanzania & Trek Medics International, NY,
USA.

 Liaison to local government, international partners and funders
 Training basic first aid to Motorcycle riders, Police Traffic and Fire Fighters
 SMS medical dispatching “Beacon” Software training to Dispatchers
 Monitoring and Evaluation, Data collection and incident mapping
 Coordinating medical equipment restocking
 Monitoring of project finances and budget designing
 Writing article and research proposal
 Developing grant proposal

Open Access for All (OA4A) Project Manager, October 2014-October 2016
Tanzania Rural Health Movement and Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences-
Bugando, Mwanza, Tanzania.

 Mobilize students to access Open Access Journals
 Workshop preparation and training
 Report writing
 Project marketing across University Campus
 Monitoring Project finances
 Project grant application

PUBLICATIONS
I. Marko Hingi. (2018, May). Don’t take pictures, call 114 to save a life. Your Health,
The Citizen. 4595, 14.

II. Daniel Gragert, Kamila Gazieva, Marko Hingi, Richard Rumanyika. A Case-Control
Study of Implementing a De Novo Pre-Hospital Obstetrical Transport &
Management Team in the Lake Zone of Tanzania. Poster presented at Scientific
Conference. Midwest Global Health Conference. 2018 Feb 4. Creighton University,
Nebraska.

III. Nshoma. J. Malole, Marko Hingi, Adam Kaombwe, Adolfine Hokororo.
Determinants of sexual and reproductive health among street adolescents in
Nyamagana district, Mwanza, Tanzania [Abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 9th
Scientific Graduation Conference; 2017 Nov 1-2; Mwanza. BMC/CUHAS;
2017.Abstract nr CU22PH.

IV. Marko Hingi. (2017, November). Death before arrival: How Tanzania can use
software to save lives on the roads. Medicopress. Retrieved from
https://goo.gl/a3g37K

V. Marko Hingi, Josephat Wangwe. (2017, May). Rural Doctors: How we save
Wounded, Traumatized Children in Mwanza Streets. Medicopress. Retrieved from
https://goo.gl/cc1pbG

VI. Khalifa Said, Marko Hingi. (2017, April). The life saving deeds of city bodaboda
riders. The Citizen, 4226, 16 & 21.

VII. Nyambura Moremi, Heike Claus, Marko Hingi, Ulrich Vogel, Stephen E. Mshana.
Multidrug-resistant Achromobacter animicus causing wound infection in a street
child in Mwanza-Tanzania. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease.
2017.02.002

VIII. Marko Hingi, John Mtomo, Nyambura Moremi, Hyasinta Jaka, Stephen E.Mshana.
High Prevalence of Wounds among Street children in Mwanza City, Tanzania: The
Understudied Group [Abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 7th Scientific Graduation
Conference; 2015 Nov 12-13; Mwanza. BMC/CUHAS; 2015.Abstract nr

IX. Marko Hingi et al. Text Message-Based Medical Dispatch for Accidents occurring
in Urban Mwanza Community in Northwestern-Tanzania [abstract}.In:
Proceedings of the 8th Scientific Graduation Conference; 2016 Nov 2-3; Mwanza.
BMC/CUHAS; 2016. Abstract nr CUO3HS.

X. Nyambura Moremi, Heike Claus, Marko Hingi, Ulrich Vogel, Stephen E. Mshana.
High Variability of Staphylococcus Aureus Strains Causing Wound Infection among
Street Children Dwelling in Mwanza City Streets in Tanzania [abstract]. In:
Proceedings of the 8th Scientific Graduation Conference; 2016 Nov 2-3. Mwanza.
BMC/CUHAS; 2016. Abstract nr CU141A.

XI. Marko Hingi, Shaban Iddi, Mariam M Mirambo, Hyasinta Jaka. Prevalence of
Overweight and Obesity among High School Adolescents in Urban Communities
of Mwanza City-Northwestern Tanzania [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 8th
Scientific Graduation Conference; 2016 Nov 2-3. Mwanza. BMC/CUHAS; 2016.
Abstract nr CU01NC.

XII. Katie Lewis, Marko Hingi. (2016, October). Health Worker in Tanzania benefit
from Open-Access Research Thanks to INASP Grant, Open-Access Health
Research.1-4

XIII. Marko Hingi, Ulumbi Ezra. (2014, March). 1000 Days towards Post MDGs
2015.Afromedica, 006, 24-25.

XIV. Ulumbi Ezra, Marko Hingi. (2014, August). Technology based Medicine Bringing
the Future into the Present, Auscultate, 12.

XV. Marko Hingi. (2013, March). Conflicts and Health in Africa, Auscultate, 10-11.

XVI. Jaynika Solanki, Marko Hingi. (2013, October). Voice of TAMSA, Wakilisha, 001,8.

CURRENT RESEARCH WORK AND PROJECTS

Mwanza Community First Response Project: Sept. 2015-Current
Implementer: Tanzania Rural Health Movement
Collaborators: Mwanza Fire and Rescue Force, Motorcycle Drivers, Police Traffic

SMS-based emergency medical dispatching software designed specifically for
communities that cannot afford advanced dispatching technologies. By relaying SMS
from the scene of an emergency to trained responders throughout the community, the
software enables the nearest available emergency care providers to quickly locate, treat
and transport emergency victims to local hospitals.

Wound Care Project for Street Children: March 2015-Current
Implementer: Tanzania Rural Health Movement
Collaborators: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Catholic University of
Health and Allied Science-Bugando (Mwanza, Tanzania) & Mission: Restore (NY, USA)

Deals with provision of wound nursing care and wound care education together with
lunch to the street children dwelling in urban Mwanza city.

Mkombozi Tailors Project, March 2016-Current
Implementer: Tanzania Rural Health Movement
Collaborators: Looking for collaborators

Is the preventive project aiming at reducing injuries among street children through
provision of free sewing/stitching training among street children and recruiting them in
the tailors workshop equipped with sewing machine where they will be working to earn
income to cover their basic need ie shelter, food and clothes.

Open Access for All (OA4A) Project, October 2014-October 2016
Implementer: Tanzania Rural Health Movement
Collaborators: Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences-Bugando (Mwanza,
Tanzania)

Targets to increases awareness and understanding of Open Access in rural areas through
delivering Open Access e-resources training among rural health workers.

Tuzungumze Project, March 2016-Sept. 2016
Implementer: Tanzania Rural Health Movement
Collaborators: International Youth Alliance for Family Planning-Tanzania

Deals with provision of online friendly family planning, Sexual and Reproductive health
education and counselling to University students through online platform in local
language

OTHER RESEARCH INTERESTS
Emergency Medicine, Environmental/Occupational Health, Safety Sciences, The
advancement of pre-hospital emergency interventions. Current emergency intervention
effectiveness, how new practices can improve or hinder with patient outcomes. Trauma,
in and out of hospital, medical research, mHealth.

SKILLS
Editing, Leadership, Managing complex tasks and situations, Hosting/presenting,
Language and Communication Skills: English and Swahili, Computer Skills: Microsoft
Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft excel, Email and internet and
Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).

ROLE IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH

Worked as volunteer in community development at TAMSA, TAPSA, Tanzania Rural

Health Movement and Global Health Club

HKMU Alumni Giving Back to the communities 2016

Community Rural Health Camp 2016

Open Access training to medical students and rural health workers. 2014-2016

Education on malnutrition outreach program by Global health Club. 2013

Provision of Mass Education in Cancer Day by Bugando Health Movement 2013

HIV/AIDs week and international AIDs day by Bugando Health Movement. 2012

Health importance of sports and balance diet to secondary school students outreach

program by Bugando Health Movement. 2012

Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension screening program by Tanzania Medical Students-

2011

Orphanage centres and Secondary Schools outreach program (reproductive health) by

Tanzania Medical Students Association 2011

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS
Writing, blogging, reading news, conversation and discussion of contemporary health
and developmental issues, listening to radio, mastering ceremonies, photography,
comedy and Jogging/fitness

REFEREE

Dr.Bahati Wajanga
Director of Hospital Services
Bugando Medical Centre
P.o.Box 1370, Mwanza
[email protected]
+255 713 409 710

Matt & Susan Bailey
Bisou Bailey Foundation
Santa Ana, California, USA
[email protected]
+1 949 254 9040

Dr.Hendry R.Sawe
Head of Department-Emergency Medicine Department
Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
P.o.Box 65001 Dar es salaam
+255 754 885 658
[email protected]

Dr. Hyasinta Jaka
Lake Zone Coordinator
Lake Zone Health Resource Centre
Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children
P.o.Box 11351
Mwanza
[email protected]
+255 768 036 276