Global Ambassadors Fellowship Program
Beginning in 2024, this longitudinal experience was created to help individuals from around the world design and implement new neuroscience curricula in their home countries. Materials can be adapted for a wide range of audiences including medical students, psychiatry residents, and practicing clinicians across disciplines. Whatever the context, our team is happy to support implementation and the assessment of impact.
The NNCI is thrilled to expand our reach to new countries, programs, and educators across the globe.
Inaugural Global Ambassadors
Anfal Arshad
Anfal Arshad is a medical doctor from Pakistan, with a background in clinical medicine and a growing focus on psychiatry. He graduated from Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, and also holds an undergraduate degree in Bachelors of Science from the University of Punjab. His interests include neurodevelopmental disorders, neuropsychiatry and medical education. He is currently working as a primary care physician and serves as an NNCI ambassador collaborating with medical students and doctors in Pakistan to incorporate neuroscience curriculum in psychiatric teaching in medical schools and residency programs. He hopes to contribute to the global community dedicated to advancing neuroscience and mental health.
Kresna Septiandy Runtuk
Kresna Septiandy Runtuk is a psychiatrist, lecturer, and biomedical researcher from Malang, Indonesia. He completed his medical and biomedical training at Universitas Brawijaya and went on to complete psychiatry residency at Universitas Indonesia. He currently works as a lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Brawijaya, and as a psychiatrist at Universitas Brawijaya Hospital.
Kresna’s interests span psychiatric neuroscience, psychotherapy, and competency-based medical education. He is especially interested in making neuroscience more clinically meaningful for psychiatric trainees and in developing educational approaches that connect brain-based understanding with real-world psychiatric assessment, formulation, and treatment.
Through the NNCI community, he has explored ways to adapt neuroscience-informed teaching for learners in low-resource settings and to support psychiatry education that is both scientifically grounded and locally relevant. His broader goal is to contribute to the development of innovative, neuroscience-informed psychiatric training in Indonesia and across global mental health settings.
Djibril Moussa
Djibril Moussa MBBS MSc is a psychiatrist and a public health specialist. He is an Atlantic fellow in brain health equity at UCSF, San Francisco, California and visiting adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry at Amoud University in Borama, Somaliland. As a new immigrant to the USA, he lives in Minneapolis MN, USA working on his US Medical License exams to redo his psychiatry residency and US Psychiatry and Neurology Board exams. His areas of interest are in academic psychiatry, addiction psychiatry and old age psychiatry. He did medical school at Amoud University in Borama, Somaliland, his public health training at Heidelberg University in Germany and his psychiatry residency at Saint Paul’s Millennium Medical College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia before transitioning to the United States.