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 Research Nurse: Sister Mercy Ngoweni

Diploma in General Nursing

Ambulance Technician Certificate

Sister Ngoweni holds a Diploma in General Nursing and a valid Certificate in Good Clinical Practice. She is a dedicated and experienced Registered General Nurse (RGN) with five years of experience in medical research focusing on infant growth, morbidity and nutrition monitoring. As a research nurse she has been involved in activities such as screening and recruitment of potential study participants, consenting participants, participant follow up, physical examinations, collecting bio-specimens, documentation of severe adverse events and conducting data quality checks.

She possesses extensive knowledge of health care services, dealing with pre-hospital, hospital accident and emergency cases in both private and public health institutions. As a patient-focused Registered General Nurse, she demonstrates leadership qualities with the ability to conduct patient assessments, supervise the provision of safe and compassionate care, and evaluate care effectiveness. She is dedicated to providing quality and evidence-based care to patients towards achieving optimal outcomes. She has a passion for learning and growing professionally within a dynamic healthcare environment.

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Research Nurse: Sister Nyaradzo Sibiya

Diploma in General Nursing

Diploma in Midwifery                     

Sister Sibiya is an experienced Registered Nurse Midwife with 3 years experience in medical research where she has been involved in monitoring infant growth nutritional status and morbidity. As a research nurse she has been involved in documenting and reporting any health changes in participants to relevant parties and raising reports where applicable. As a research nurse she has been involved in activities such as screening and recruitment of potential study participants, consenting participants, participant follow up, physical examinations, collecting bio-specimens, documentation of severe adverse events and conducting data quality checks.

As a midwife she is dedicated to providing quality child and maternal care to prevent morbidity and mortality. She values patient ethics and maintains confidentiality, privacy and dignity of patients and participants when providing care. She holds a valid Good Clinical Practice (GCP) certificate.

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Research Nurse: Sister Linda Chigeza

Diploma in General Nursing

Diploma in Midwifery                     

Sister Chigeza is a registered Nurse/Midwife with a traceable history of working in research over the past 2 years and 4 years of working in maternity unit in government hospitals. As a research nurse, I have experience working with diverse populations, such as young children and adolescents. As a research nurse she has been involved in documenting and reporting any health changes in participants to relevant parties and raising reports where applicable. As a research nurse she has been involved in activities such as screening and recruitment of potential study participants, consenting participants, participant follow up, physical examinations, collecting bio-specimens, documentation of severe adverse events and conducting data quality checks.

Partners or Collaborators

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Local Partners/Collaborators

  • BRTI
  • NIH

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  • City of Harare
  • MoHCC

Regional Partners/Collaborators

  • Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, South Africa University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
  • The Institute of Clinical Research (KAVI-ICR) Kenya
  • The Centre for Research on Emerging and re-Emergent Diseases (CREMER) Cameroon
  • .Younde
  • University of Cape Town, South Africa

European Partners/Collaborators

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Prof Andrew Macpherson from the Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine (University Hospital Bern). https://www.mucosalimmunology.ch/en/

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Prof Randall Platt (ETH Zurich) on a BRCCH project, Living Microbial Diagnostics to Enable Individualised Child Health Interventions. https://bsse.ethz.ch/platt

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Professor Benjamin Misselwitz from the Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine (University Hospital Bern). https://www.mucosalimmunology.ch/en/

Professor Michael Kaess

Professor Marcus Altfeld from Leibniz Institute of Experimental Virology/Heinrich Pette Institute (HPI), Germany, https://www.leibniz-liv.de/

Professor Madeleine Bunders from Leibniz Institute of Experimental Virology/Heinrich Pette Institute (HPI), Germany

Professor Thomas Heinkeimer, Leiden University

Dr ZZZ, Leiden University

Professor Sarah Rowlands Jones University of Oxford, UK

Mentors and Advisors

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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

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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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