Dr Edgar Susiku, PhD

• Provide leadership across research, governance and regulatory compliance, ensuring alignment with national professional and quality assurance frameworks.
• Contribute to school-level strategic decision-making, assessment boards and quality enhancement, supporting continuous improvement.
• Conduct and publish applied health systems research focused on workforce competence, patient safety and system readiness.
• Engage external stakeholders, including clinical partners, regulators and professional bodies, to support evidence-informed improvement.
• Responsible for developing and promoting innovative teaching and learning approaches and materials, which create interest, understanding and engagement amongst students.
• Participates in and supports activities that enhance programme quality.
• Provide high-quality feedback to students.
• Provides personal tutoring to students and participates in activities that enhance student experience.
• Ensures up-to-date subject knowledge with continuous professional development.

Thesis: Exploration of pre-registration Radiography education and training models in sub-Saharan Africa

• Led a multi-country explanatory sequential mixed-methods research programme across 23 countries, integrating quantitative, qualitative and regulatory evidence.
• Conducted systematic reviews, regulatory document analysis, surveys (SPSS/EFA) and qualitative case studies (NVivo).
• Rapidly synthesised complex, incomplete and heterogeneous evidence into system-level findings and policy-relevant recommendations.
• Generated insights directly applicable to health protection, preparedness, workforce resilience and global health security.
• Published peer-reviewed research and presented findings internationally.

Stakeholder Engagement & Influence

• Extensive experience advising and engaging senior stakeholders, including professional regulators, academic leaders, clinicians and international partners.
• Skilled in communicating complex scientific evidence to non-technical audiences to inform strategic decisions.
• Proven ability to build consensus, influence without authority and work collaboratively across organisational and sectoral boundaries.

• Led design and quality assurance of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes aligned with professional regulation and workforce standards.
• Developed evidence-based curricula and assessment strategies linking education outcomes to public protection and service readiness.
• Provided advisory input to programme teams on risk, compliance and quality improvement, informed by research evidence.
• Lectured on complex subjects for better student understanding.
• Collaborated with other lecturers to share best practices in teaching methodologies.
• Conducted research and contributed to the knowledge base in the field.
• Ensured up-to-date subject knowledge with continuous professional development.

• Implemented innovative teaching methods and improved student engagement rates.
• Mentored students during their final year project, ensuring successful completion.
• Led seminars and workshops for enhanced student participation.
• Managed administrative tasks related to coursework and streamlined the evaluation process.
• Served as personal tutor for struggling students, increased pass rates.
• Collaborated with other lecturers to share best practices in teaching methodologies.
• Designed exams, assessments and course content, including lecture material and writing assignments.

• Provided senior leadership for departmental strategy, governance, budgets, staffing and regulatory engagement within a national health training system.
• Led a multidisciplinary team of academic, clinical and regulatory experts to design, review and secure accreditation for Zambia’s first-ever undergraduate degree in Medical Sonography, working collaboratively with regulators and accreditation bodies to achieve approval.
• Set strategic direction for curriculum reform, quality assurance and assessment, directly strengthening workforce competence and patient safety.
• Chaired governance committees, advised senior academic boards, and represented the department to external regulators and national stakeholders.
• Oversaw risk management, compliance and performance monitoring in a complex and resource-constrained environment.
• Oversaw assessment quality assurance, examinations, and programme accreditation.
• Led research initiatives, seminars, conferences and external stakeholder engagements.

• Delivered frontline diagnostic services across radiography, ultrasound, CT and MRI with responsibility for safety, quality and regulatory adherence.
• Supervised and trained health professionals and students, contributing to workforce development and service resilience.
• Supported clinical governance through audit, protocol development and workflow improvement

• Performed diagnostic ultrasound, MRI, CT and general radiography.
• Managed imaging workflow, patient care and radiation protection processes.
• Maintained imaging quality standards, data integrity, equipment functionality and patient safety.