Ms. Chang has worked as a data manager and IRB coordinator for Dr. Kanki for over 14 years. As data manager for the Harvard PEPFAR program, she assisted international partners in monitoring, evaluation, and quality improvement. She works with collaborators at international sites to develop research protocols, study tools, and databases, and document regulatory compliance. She monitors, prepares, and analyzes data for program evaluations and research projects on various topics,…
Beth has provided laboratory, data management and utility development for programs in Nigeria since 2005. For the Harvard PEPFAR program, Beth developed the treatment response utility for identifying patients failing antiretroviral therapy, using the electronic data available at each health center. This software pulls together clinically relevant information from medication dispense histories, laboratory tests and physician notes into a visual display that offers a snapshot of patient progress. Beth is…
Don has worked as a laboratory specialist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for over 25 years. He is the Director of Laboratory Programs in the Kanki Laboratory and oversees the BSL3 Virology laboratory (FXB 4). He provides laboratory expertise to colleagues in Nigeria for infrastructure development, laboratory training and laboratory administration for WHO qualification. His research background has focused on HIV, Zika and Dengue viruses, and…
Dr. Koofhethile is a postdoctoral Fogarty Fellow at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health after the successful completion of her PhD from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Dr. Koofhethile’s research investigates HIV viral reservoirs and the potential for HIV cure in adolescents on long term antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Botswana. She is also studying the HIV-2 reservoir to identify unique determinants to HIV-2 attenuated pathogenicity and long…
Dr. Ogunbajo is one of our 2020 Alonzo Smythe Yerby postdoctoral fellows and was appointed as a research fellow in IID with Dr. Kanki as his mentor since June 2020. Dr. Ogunbajo’s doctoral research at Brown University was noteworthy with a number of important studies conducted in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and the US, which resulted in publications on psychosocial health outcomes in gay and bisexual men. These are key vulnerable…
Dr. Rawizza is an Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is an infectious disease physician with training in adult and pediatric medicine that has worked with Dr. Kanki since 2007. She has over a decade of experience in translational clinical research in Nigeria, where she is currently completing a K23 award examining the pharamacokinetics of TB and ART…