Francisca Mutapi

Professor Francisca Mutapi is a Professor in Global Health Infection and Immunity at the University of Edinburgh and co-Director of the Global Health Academy. She is the deputy Director of the TIBA (Tacklinf Infections to Benefit Africa) Unit at the Univerity of Edinburgh. She is also an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine and Honorary professor at the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. She conducts innovative research on neglected tropical diseases that has been translated into significant health improvements for millions of children in Africa. Her work involves using basic science to inform global helminth control and intervention programmes and has led to paediatric helminthiasis treatment guideline revision by the World Health Organisation, contributed to the implementation of Zimbabwe’s ongoing National Helminth control programme and most recently contributed to the development of Zimbabwe’s National AMR Plan of Action launched in September 2017. Prof Mutapi currently sits on several national and international advisory and strategic boards as well as several funding committees including the African Academy of Science and New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) s Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Africa (AESA) ISSAB and AESA’s Grand Challenges Africa Steering Committee. She is also a member of the WHO Afro Director’s Independent Advisory Group. She currently chairs the UK Department of Health’ s National Institutes of Health Global Research (Groups) Funding committee. She was elected as one of the 60 founding members of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy in 2012, a Fellow of the Africa Science Leadership Programme and a Fellow of the African Academy of Science in 2015 and most recently, in 2018, a Fellow of the Zimbabwe Academy of Sciences.