Tafadzwa Matika
Zimbabwe
MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine
Julius Baer Scholarship, St Edmund’s Hall
Funding: Oxford-Hoffmann and GRoW @ Annenberg
Tafadzwa (Taf) works as a Senior Program Coordinator on the Global Vaccine Delivery team at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). Taf is also a full-time farmer who has deep interests in strengthening food production systems and agricultural value addition. In college, his primary research interests were on the effects of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) in HIV positive patients in Harare where he was Principal Director of a Diabetes and HIV Study. Tafadzwa holds a Bachelor of Science in Public Health, with a major in Nutrition, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His long-term plan is to become an epidemiologist and to work to strengthen Zimbabwe's health system.
