Handbook of Applied Developmental Science in Sub-Saharan Africa (PDF)

Amina Abubakar, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Public Health at Pwani University, Kenya and a Research Fellow at the Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme.  She co-leads the Neuroscience research group at KEMRI-WTRP. She is also an honorary fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.  Her main interests are in the study of developmental delays and impairments among children and adolescents exposed to various health problems such as HIV, malnutrition and malaria. A focus in her work is the development of culturally appropriate strategies for identifying, monitoring and rehabilitating at-risk children.  She has (co)-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She has served on technical working groups, and forums for various international organizations including the World Health Organization, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (USA), Save the Children, and Autism Speaks.  She is actively involved in capacity building for African Scientists; she has supervised Postgraduate Diploma, Masters and PhD students in Kenya. She has also supervised PhD students from South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia. 

Fons J. R. van de Vijver, Ph.D., holds a chair in cross-cultural psychology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and an extraordinary chair at North-West University, South Africa, and the University of Queensland, Australia. He has published more than 350 papers and chapters, mainly in the domain of cross-cultural psychology. His research focuses on bias and equivalence, psychological acculturation and multiculturalism, cognitive similarities and differences, response styles, and translations and adaptations. He supervises about 25 Ph.D. and 5 postdoctoral students. He has teaching experience in cross-cultural psychology and methods/statistics. Dr. van de Vijver has presented keynotes and invited lectures at various conferences and workshops in