Full Name
Mogomotsi Matshaba
Job title
Executive Director
University/company
Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa)
Speaker bio
Dr. Mogomotsi Matshaba, Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Retrovirology, Baylor College of Medicine, and Executive Director- Botswana-Baylor Clinic, is a graduate of University College of Dublin, Ireland. He worked as a medical officer in Botswana from 2005-2008, during which time he spent one year as a physician-in-training at the Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Center of Excellence. He completed his residency training in pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine (2008 to 2011). In 2014 he moved to Swaziland Centre of Excellence as the Interim Executive Director and later returned to Botswana to Botswana at the end of the same year. He is the Principal Investigator of several studies including the NIH funded Collaborative African Genomics Network (CAfGEN) leading a team of researcher from 6 institutions and 4 countries. He is the co-chair of the H3Africa Steering Committee. He is also the chairman of the National HIV/Syphilis Elimination Validation Committee. He sits in several Ministry of Health and Wellness Committees as the pediatric expert: Botswana National HIV Guidelines Committee, TB/ HIV Integration Technical Working Group, HIV Drug Forecasting and Procurement Committee, TB/HIV Drug Resistance Technical Working Group, Adolescent HIV Guidelines Committee among others.
Mogomotsi Matshaba