Precious Monalisa Chiferere

Passionate Medical Doctor and Epidemiologist with experience in a wide variety of healthcare settings. Dedicated to improving public health services in low- and middle-income countries. Quantitatively trained but eager to learn and grow in qualitative methods and evidence synthesis methodologies.

• Date of Birth: 07/17/87
• Gender: Female

• Distinction in Community Medicine 2011, University of Zimbabwe
• Distinction and University of Zimbabwe Book Prize 2011 ( the book prize is awarded to the most outstanding student in a discipline)
• Recipient of the William Harding le Riche Medal in Epidemiology 2023 ( this award established in 1983, is annually awarded to a postgraduate student in the Wits School of Public Health on the grounds of excellence in a research project)

• Incidence and prevalence of mesothelioma associated with asbestos exposure in BRICS countries: A systematic review (an unpublished group project undertaken as part of Epidemiology for Health Researchers Module II course work)
• Incidence, types, timing and predictors of adverse events in the India-South Africa drug resistant tuberculosis pharmacominetic study in the North west province ( a research report undertaken in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of MSc Epidemiology, this project was awarded the W. Harding le Riche medal for the 2023 academic year)

• Registered with the Health Professions Council of Namibia (HPCNA)
• Completed the SAHCS Advanced Clinical HIV Management Course for Doctors, MDB015/MPDP/009/2024/ACHM01, 01/01/24

• Prof. Kennedy Otwombe, Lead Biostatistician Perinatal HIV Research Unit Johannesburg; Associate Professor University of the Witwatersrand School of Public Health; Email address: otwombek@phru.co.za
• Dr. Firdaus Nabeemeeah, Medical Officer Perinatal HIV Research Unit Johannesburg Email address: nabeemeeah@phru.co.za