5th AFREhealth Symposium Harare Zimbabwe 2-4 August 2022
- She is currently the AFREhealth Symposium Local Organising Committee (LOC) Coordinator
- Coordinated the writing team for application to host the 5th AFREhealth symposium
- Coordinated establishment of LOC sub-committees ie Advisory, Logistics/ Travel and Accommodation, Scientific Review, ICT and LOC Secretariat
- Coordinated LOC and sub-committee meetings in preparation for the 5th Symposium in Harare HICC scheduled for 2 to 4 August 2022
University of Zimbabwe
- Joined the University of Zimbabwe, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS).
- Immunology Unit in 2018 as an Associate Professor of Immunology.
- Appointed Faculty Research and Innovation Manager in April 2021.
- Currently Immunology Unit Coordinator since April 2021.
- MBCHB part 3 Coordinator, teaching, continuous assessments and final exams
- Teaches immunology to part 3 MBCHB Medical students, Medical Laboratory Scientists and MMEDS.
- Member of the Joint Research and Ethics Committee for University of Zimbabwe FMHS and Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals January 2018.
- Member of the University of Zimbabwe Ethics Committee since April 2020
- Member of the Ministry of Health and Child Care Technical working group on Health Systems Research
- PERFECT AND GHES NIH Post Doc Fellow, ongoing (Validation of the OLA HIV Drug Resistance kit on HIV Positive Women and their exposed children recruited into the PROMOTE observational cohort study, Harare, Zimbabwe)
Other appointments
- Principal Medical Research Officer National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Ministry of Health and Child Care (MOHCC) Zimbabwe (August 2005 – September 2008)
- Section Head HIV/AIDS NIHR, MOHCC (August 2005 to September 2008)
- Principal Research Compliance Officer, Head of Regulatory Inspections and Information Department, Medical Research Council of Zimbabwe (MRCZ) since September 2008 to Dec 2017
- External research protocol Reviewer for the Medical Research Council of Zimbabwe
- Consultant Facilitator for Research Ethics and Good Clinical Practice training courses for the Medical Research Council of Zimbabwe
- Consultant Facilitator for Research Ethics and Good Clinical Practice training courses for the Research Support Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences University of Zimbabwe
- Part-time lecturer at Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) responsible for the Research Methods
module for BSc nursing degree programme, since February 2015.
- Appointed a member of the Marondera University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology Council, Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education Science and Technology. Serving in the Resource Mobilisation Committee (2017-2019).
Additional training
- Grant writing courses, Research Support Centre UZ.
- Post Doc in HIV drug resistance, ongoing.
Academic Achievements
- PhD in HIV Immunology, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa (2017)
- Masters in Clinical Trials (LSHTM) (2014),
- Masters Degree in Public Health from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) (2007),
- Masters Degree in Biotechnology (1998), University of Zimbabwe,
- Honours Biological Sciences (1993), University of Zimbabwe,
- Clinical Trials Diploma from LSHTM (2014),
- Public Health Diploma (LSHTM 2007)
- Research Ethics and GCP certificates.
Other achievements
- Publications in peer reviewed journals
Awards
- Awarded several scholarships for academic studies
- 2019: Awarded GHES NIH funding, post Doc research study on HIV drug resistance
- 2010: Nominated for and won the national award for a competition of local scientists Ministry of Science and Technology Development (MSTD) and Research Council of Zimbabwe (RCZ).
- 2003: Awarded a WHO/TDR grant for a collaborative HIV project between NIHR, Zimbabwe and Denmark.
- 2006: Awarded a UK HIV Research Trust scholarship HIV schistosomiasis research project.