Researchers/Supervisors

Caroline Cleopatra Chisenga

SANTHE Supervisor


Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ),
Lusaka, Zambia

Collaboration Interests
  • Cellular and T cell immunology to both bacterial and HIV infections
  • Vaccine development

Caroline Chisenga is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Lusaka, Zambia (CIDRZ). Since 2016, she has been investigating vaccine- and natural infection–derived immune responses in adults and infants, with a focus on HIV and bacterial infections. She leads a small research group and teaches MSc students in Infection and Immunity at the Levy Mwanawasa Medical University in Lusaka, Zambia. Her research interests centre on understanding reduced vaccine responsiveness in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), using systems serology approaches to inform vaccine development strategy.

SANTHE is an Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) flagship programme funded by the Science for Africa Foundation through the DELTAS Africa programme; the Gates Foundation; Gilead Sciences Inc.; and the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard.