Mentor and advisors are leaders, critical thinkers, expert in their own field of specialisation that guide, give research direction, motivator and provide support to other researchers and students in the process facilitating and ensuring good research is done
Professor Exnevia Gomo
Professor Gomo is an Associate Professor (Immunology) in the Department of Laboratory Diagnostic and Investigative Sciences, Medical Laboratory Sciences Unit, and Director of the Research Support Centre (RSC), University of Zimbabwe Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (UZ-FMHS) since 2011. He holds a MSc in Applied Immunology (UK), PhD in Immunology (Denmark) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Research Methodology (Denmark). Prof Gomo has extensive experience in health research in Zimbabwe with regional and international collaboration. He has held several senior research and management positions. From 1998 – 2003 he was a Principal Medical Scientist and Head of the HIV/AIDS Research Unit at the Blair Research Institute (now National Institute of Health Research). In 2003 he joined the UZ as Associate Professor. He has continued to supervise Masters and PhD students. From 2016-2018, he was South Africa Research Chair in Indigenous Health Care Systems at University of KwaZulu-Natal College of Health Sciences. Prof Gomo has over 80 publications in peer reviewed journals.
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Professor Simbarashe Rusakaniko
Professor Rusakaniko is a Professor at the University of Zimbabwe Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. He holds a DPhil degree in Reproductive Health (UZ), MSc Epidemiology and Biostatistics 1997, University of Newcastle, Australia. To date he has over 120 publications published in peer reviewed journals.
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Leolin Katsidzira
Dr Leolin Katsidzira (Leo) is a gastroenterologist in Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe. He did his undergraduate, and specialist training in internal medicine at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare, Zimbabwe, and trained in gastroenterology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. His PhD thesis was on the epidemiology, and genetics of colorectal cancer in African populations. He started the Gastroenterology Clinic at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare and runs the endoscopy service at the same institutions. His main research interests are in the interplay of diet, the environment, the gut microbiota, and mucosal immunity in the emergency of inflammatory bowel disease, and colorectal cancer in Africa, and in the genesis and complications of environmental enteropathy. He maintains an active research interest in helicobacter pylori, chronic Hepatitis B & C in Africa and is actively involved in the development of clinical and academic gastroenterology in Africa. He is the current President of the National Physicians Association of Zimbabwe, and a council member of the East, Central and Southern Africa College of Physicians (ECSACOP).
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