Surname: Matchaba-Hove Qualifications: MBChB, MSc
First Names: Reginald Blessing Department: Community Medicine
Title: Dr Date joined UZ: 01/08/1990
E-mail: rmatchaba@medsch.uz.ac.zw or rbmatchaba@yahoo.com
Area of Expertise: Occupational Health; Public Health
Brief History: Inaugural Principal Medical Officer for the Department of Occupational Health & Safety, National Social Security Authority (NSSA); Chairman, Department of Community Medicine (6 yrs) and Deputy Dean, Faculty of Medicine (3 yrs);
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Surname: Tshimanga Qualifications: MD, MPH
First Names: Mufuta Department: Community Medicine
Title: Dr Date joined UZ: 01/10/1996
E-mail: tshimang@ecoweb.co.zw
Area of Expertise: Field Epidemiology; Disease Surveillance and Outbreak; Research Methods.
Brief History: Developed national guidelines for control of communicable diseases. Work done for Ministry of Health and Child Welfare; World Health Organization; CDC-DIH (USA).
Spearheaded the adaptation of training modules for health workers on Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response.
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Surname: Woelk Qualifications: PhD
First Names: Godfrey Benjamin Department: Community Medicine
Title: Associate Professor Date joined UZ: 01/07/1988
E-mail: gwoelk@medsch.uz.ac.zw or gwoelk@gmail.com
Area of Expertise: Epidemiology; Research Methods; Health Systems Research; HIV/AIDS Prevention Intervention and Policy Development; Public Health.
Brief History: Work done for ZNFPC, NACP/UNAIDS, WHO, Principal Investigator on NIH (USA) grants.
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Surname: Shamu Qualifications: MSc
First Names: Simukai Department: Community Medicine
Title: Mr Date joined UZ: 01/06/04
E-mail: sshamu@medsch.uz.ac.zw
Area of Expertise: Medical/Health Sociology, Qualitative Research Methods, Gender Poverty and Health.
Brief History: Conducted health and health related research and involved in Baseline and Evaluative Surveys for Community Based Organizations, public and private organizations in areas of HIV/AIDS, Gender, Poverty and Health.
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Surname: Chideme-Maradzika Qualifications: MSc in Health
Promotion; MSc in Health Social Science; Master of Clinical Epidemiology
First Names: Julita Department: Community Medicine
Title: Mrs Date joined UZ: 01/10/1991
E-mail: jmaradzika@medsch.uz.ac.zw
Area of Expertise: Health Promotion; Health Social Science; Teaching; Training, Designing Communication Strategies; Designing Community Based Health Promotion Interventions; Preparation and Implementation of Baseline Surveys e.g. World Health Survey; Monitoring & Evaluation of programs; Advocacy and Social Mobilization; Health Education Material Production;
Brief History: Designed communication strategy for ESC; HIV/AIDS baseline survey, USAID/FHI; Evaluation VHWP/UNICEF; Evaluation of MTPT2 for Ministry of Health and Child Welfare/NACP; Extensive experience in WHO assignments; Coordinated World Health Survey for Geneva; National Health and Nutrition Survey Analysis for WHO.
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Surname: Nyirongo Qualifications: MBChB, MSc, DCH,
DTM&H
First Names: Lilian Olwyn Naomi Department: Community Medicine
Title: Dr Date joined UZ: 01/04/1993
E-mail: lnyirongo@medsch.uz.ac.zw
Area of Expertise: Community Child Health and Mother & Child Health; Special expertise in growth and development, maternal and child nutrition.
Brief History: 1998-1999, work done for Ministry of Health and Child Welfare on Nutrition Constraints Assessment; National Health and Nutrition Survey Analysis for WHO.
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Surname: Rusakaniko Qualifications: MSc, PhD
First Names: Simbarashe Department: Community Medicine
Title: Professor Date joined UZ: 01/01/98
Area of Expertise: Biostatistics; Epidemiology; Adolescent Reproductive Health.
Brief History: Behavioural Surveillance Survey for FHI/PSI; Situational Analysis of HIV/AIDS quality of care initiative (CDC); World Health Survey (WHO); Advisor to WHO on Data Management; National Survey on Nutritional Indicators (MoHCW)
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Surname: January Qualifications: MSc
First Names: James Department: Community Medicine
Title: Mr Date joined UZ: 01/11/2002
E-mail: jamesj@medsch.uz.ac.zw
Area of Expertise: Health Promotion, Psychiatry, Behavioural Sciences.
Brief History: Clinical Psychologist, Private Practice.