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Tobias Chirwa is an Associate Professor and Head of the Wits School of Public Health (SPH). He is the Programme Director for the Wellcome funded Sub-Saharan Africa Consortium for Advanced Biostatistics (SSACAB). He is also the PI for the University of North Carolina (UNC) and Wits D43 Fogarty grant on AIDS Implementation Science and Advanced Cohort Analyses, and co-PI for the WHO/TDR Implementation Research. Prior to this, he was the Head of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Wits SPH and a Research Fellow in Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
He also held administrative positions like the Dean, Faculty of Science; Head, Department of Mathematical Sciences at University of Malawi (UNIMA) and was President of Statistical Association of Malawi. He has led postgraduate capacity building initiatives including the Norwegian-funded NUFU PhD programme, MSc Biostatistics and Informatics at UNIMA. He continued to develop curriculum while at Wits: short courses in biostatistics; MSc programmes in Biostatistics, Research Data Management and Implementation Science.
He has initiated research collaboration with more than five Wits research entities and within SSACAB training and research institutions, and has raised over US$17 million in research and training grants as PI/Co-PI. He has provided leadership to research and consultancy projects on STIs, tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, disease surveillance, maternal and newborn health. He continues to work on TB diagnosis, treatment adherence and post-treatment survival, child health, specifically low birth weight infants, and more recently malaria. His statistical interests are in longitudinal and survival data analysis.
He has supervised eight PhD and 35 MSc students to completion. He has contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and has been a co-editor to two books and a special journal issue.
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Research Ecosystems in Africa and Asia Priority Area