Last October, over 170 policymakers, health experts, academics, and youth innovators from 14 countries came together for the Africa Health Collaborative’s (AHC) 2025 Annual Convening, hosted by the African Leadership University (ALU) in Kigali, Rwanda.
TAAAC Program Coordinator University of Toronto
Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration, University of Toronto
TAAAC Toronto Director University of Toronto
Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration, University of Toronto
TAAAC Program Coordinator University of Toronto
Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration
Canada
Anuli Ndubuisi is the Program Coordinator for the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC) program at the University of Toronto.
Anuli’s career has spanned program and project management, research, business process improvements and leadership roles in Africa, Canada, and US institutions across industry and academia. Her work focuses on capacity building, partnerships and programming for global health education and international education initiatives. In her previous role at the University of Toronto, Anuli facilitated partnership engagement and research collaborations for the Health Entrepreneurship pillar within the Africa Health Collaborative.
Prior to joining the University, Anuli worked with Shell International across multiple sites, where she garnered global perspectives working on global multidisciplinary projects. Anuli holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Manchester, U.K. She is completing a PhD in Curriculum and Pedagogy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), with a collaborative specialization in Engineering Education at the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Education and Practice (ISTEP), University of Toronto.
TAAAC Toronto Director University of Toronto
Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration
Canada
Marci Rose completed a bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy at The Ohio State University and her master’s at the University of Toronto. She began her OT career at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in 1990 where she worked for 15 years.
In 2002, she became the OT in Chief, and then assumed a variety of different management positions at The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. In 2005, Marci became the Administrative Director for the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital, a role she held until 2012. In 2012, she started the Frederick W. Thompson Anxiety Disorders Centre at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre where she worked as the Administrative Director until formally joining TAAAC.
Her professional passion is for global health work in Ethiopia. She has been an active participant in TAAAC since 2010, first as the TAAAC-OT co-lead, then as the Program Manager and now as the Toronto Director for TAAAC. She has been to Ethiopia on many occasions including as a consultant in the Biaber Project, a 3-year Grand Challenge Canada grant. Marci is a Lecturer in the Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy at the University of Toronto and is the Ethiopian Lead for the International Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation at UofT.