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I am currently employed by the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), Grants, Innovation and Product Development (GIPD) Unit as a Project Manager/Senior Scientist and a Programme Manager for the SAMRC Indigenous Knowledge (IK) systems. I am responsible for liaising with sponsors, project teams, regulatory bodies, universities to ensure proper conduct of the projects; meeting milestone targets as indicated in the awards; reporting writing to Directorate and funding bodies; development and maintenance of standard operating procedures; development of service level agreements and ensuring smooth project delivery; and coordinating or facilitating the strategic IKS project partnerships: proposal development, raise project funding, navigate the regulatory, laboratory science, pre-clinical and clinical aspects. I am also currently serving as a Technical Advisory Panel Member to the Office of Health Standard Compliance and Health Ombud SA, a Member of the COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition and a Fellow of the SAS Society (FSASS).
Previously, I worked for the SAMRC Cochrane Centre as a Senior Scientist working on Vaccine Implementation Research responsible for preparing research findings for publication in leading academic journals in collaboration with other Unit staff and led/coordinated projects on vaccine acceptance and uptake. I have over 17 and half years’ research experience and have researched on Cancer, HIV/AIDS and TB, Vaccine Implementation Research and Precision Medicine. I have over 8 years’ research experience on HIV/AIDS and over two years on TB. I also was previously employed at EQUIP Innovation for Health (Right to Care) as a Senior Research Manager working in 17 countries across Africa, South East Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean towards achieving the UNAIDS 90- 90-90 targets, the project is funded by USAID which include HIV Self-testing (HIV)-Co-PI, Multi-month Scripting and Dispensing (MMSD) and other projects include Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PreP) demo projects (Namibia), Hepatitis C Virus projects (HCV) (Ukraine and Myanmar) and Costing and cost-effectiveness assessments of various innovative interventions. I also was previously employed by the University of Limpopo as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Pre-Clinical Sciences (Medical Biochemistry). I have completed an NIH FIC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with the University of Venda (South Africa), HIV/AIDS & Global Health Research Programme, Department of Microbiology and the University of Virginia (USA), Center for Global Health where I worked as a Genetic Epidemiology/Statistical Genetics and Metabonomics Research Fellow conducting analytical and genetic epidemiological research with existing data sets and another Postdoctoral fellowship with the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, in the Cell Biology Laboratory within the Centre for HIV and STIs. I have recently completed an Advanced Project Management Course with the University of Cape Town. I am a registered Professional Natural Scientist (registration number: 119189). I graduated with a PhD in Medical Immunology with the University of Pretoria (South Africa) at a graduation ceremony held on the 5th of September 2014, with a research project titled: “Compartmentalization, Adaptive Evolution and Therapeutic Response of HIV-1 in the Gastrointestinal Tract (GIT) of African patients infected with Subtype C: Implications for the Enhancement of Therapeutic Efficacy”.
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Frontiers in reproductive health (2023): 1228325
The Lancet. Planetary healthno. 7 (2022): E586-E600
LANCET HIVno. 6 (2021): E363-E375
LANCETno. 10258 (2020): 1223-1249
LANCETno. 10258 (2020): 1250-1284
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