View Profile Thumbi Ndung’u SANTHE Collaborative Grant Awardee Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), Durban, South Africa Thumbi Ndung'u has a laboratory at the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) in Durban, South Africa, and also runs the University of KwaZulu-Natal's HIV Pathogenesis Programme (UKZN HPP). He is interested in understanding…
H View Profile Harriet Mayanja-Kizza SANTHE Consortium Steering Committee Member Uganda CWRU Research Collaboration (UCRC) Kampala, Uganda Harriet Mayanja-Kizza, a Professor of Medicine at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. She is a principal investigator on studies including tuberculosis (TB) immune diagnostics, clinical trials, and immune responses among TB contacts who…
View Profile Eduard Sanders SANTHE Consortium Steering Committee Member KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) Kilifi, Kenya Eduard Sanders is a medical doctor and a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) trained epidemiologist specialised in HIV prevention research and public health with extensive experience in Africa (Kenya, 1992-1996; Ethiopia,…
View Profile Eunice Nduati SANTHE Consortium Steering Committee Member KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) Kilifi, Kenya Eunice Nduati is a research scientist in the field of immunology, working at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) - Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya. Her research interests are in understanding…
View Profile William Kilembe SANTHE Site Principal Investigator, Consortium Steering Committee Member Rwanda Zambia Health Research Group (RZHRG) Ndola, Zambia William Kilembe is a Project Director at the Center for Family Health Research in Zambia (CFHRZ) in Lusaka, which is one of the Rwanda Zambia Health Research Group (RZHRG) sites in Zambia. He…
View Profile Simani Gaseitsiwe SANTHE Collaborative Grant Awardee Botswana Harvard Health Partnership (BHP) Gaborone, Botswana Simani Gaseitsiwe works as a Research Associate at BHP. His work focuses on infection biology, aiming to understand how different pathogens interact with the human host. His primary pathogen of interest is HIV…
View Profile Exnevia Gomo SANTHE Consortium Steering Committee Member Collaborative Clinical Research Centre (CCRC), Harare, Zimbabwe Exnevia Gomo is an Associate Professor in the Medical Laboratory Sciences Unit, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences (FMHS), at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) where he co-ordinates the Immunology module of the…
View Profile Marcel Tongo Passo SANTHE Collaborative Grant Awardee Centre de Recherche sur les Maladies Emergentes et Reemergentes (CREMER)/Institut de Recherches Médicales et d’Etudes des Plantes Médicinales (IMPM) Marcel Tongo Passo returned to his home country, Cameroon, in 2018 after his post-graduate training in South Africa. He sought to establish an independent research career, build his own laboratory, and recruit some…
View Profile Victoria Kasprowicz SANTHE Consortium Steering Committee Member Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), Durban, South Africa Victoria Kasprowicz earned her Masters degree in molecular and cellular biochemistry, followed by a PhD in clinical medicine, at Oxford University, UK. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University and was…
View Profile Eric Hunter SANTHE Consortium Steering Committee Member Emory Vaccine Center, Georgia, United States/Rwanda Zambia Health Research Group (RZHRG), Kigali, Rwanda Eric Hunter’s research focus has been the molecular virology and pathogenesis of retroviruses, including human immunodeficiency virus. In recent years the emphasis of his research has been on HIV transmission and pathogenesis, defining…
View Profile Mark Brockman SANTHE Consortium Steering Committee Member Simon Fraser University (SFU), Burnaby, Canada Mark Brockman is a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. His research aims to understand the host and viral mechanisms that contribute to HIV…