Dr Kwame Shanaube
Zambart & School of Public Health, University of Zambia
Dr Kwame Shanaube is Deputy Director of Research (Quantitative) at Zambart, a multidisciplinary research organisation that conducts a range of studies including clinical trials, epidemiological studies and laboratory-based diagnostic studies. She is a clinician with a Master’s degree in public health and a PhD in TB clinical epidemiology. She is also an honorary lecturer at the University of Zambia School of Public Health. Her research interests cover a wide range of disciplines, including TB/HIV epidemiology, community-based cluster randomised trials, operational research through evaluation of field diagnostics and adolescent health. She is also the country’s Principal Investigator for a large international TB consortium (the TREATS Project) and the overall Principal Investigator for the TREATS-COVID study, both funded by the EDCTP.