Professor Rose Agatha. Kambarami
Professor Rose Agatha. Kambarami MB.ChB, DCH, MSc Epidemiology, FRCP(UK) paediatrics
Prof. Rose Kambarami is a paediatrician and an epidemiologist by training. She received her medical degrees from the University of Zimbabwe, the College of Medicine of South Africa, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of the UK, and the University of Newcastle in Australia. She is an experienced, associate professor of paediatrics and child health, trainer, grant recipient, project manager, researcher and a global health and development technical and management expert with over 40 years of relevant, professional work experience.
As a faculty member at the University of Zimbabwe (20years), she has taught and mentored hundreds of undergraduate and post graduate medical students in the areas of neonatology, paediatrics and child health as well as clinical epidemiology and research methods. She led the setting up of the University of Zimbabwe Clinical Epidemiology Resource and Training Centre and as the professorial HIV/AIDS chair, set up the University’s HIV/AIDS Prevention and Support Centre for staff and students. She has over 20 years’ experience as a senior management and technical leader in public health programmes in Zimbabwe and the Southern African region. Specifically, Prof. Kambarami has technical experience in the areas of HIV/AIDS and Maternal, Newborn and Child health (MNCH).
She is well-known for her leadership in the national HIV/AIDS health worker trainings and establishment of national OI/ART clinics through the US Centres for Disease Prevention and Control funded HIV/AIDS Quality Of Care (HAQOCI) project and for piloting and scaling up Kangaroo Mother Care in Zimbabwe with funding support from UNICEF and WHO. She has presented and published in reviewed journals mainly covering several topics on maternal, perinatal, newborn and child health.
Rose was the Country Director the USAID funded Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) project in Zimbabwe, Chair of the JSI R&T Board of Directors in Zimbabwe and Chairperson of the Paediatric Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ). She continues to provide honorary services and supports undergraduate and post graduate teaching, examinations and research at the College of Health Sciences University of Zimbabwe. Rose currently serves on the WHO Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group, National COVID 19 Technical Advisory Group of Experts, Zim-TTECH Trust Board of Trustees, Bantwana Trust Board of Trustees and the Paediatric Association of Zimbabwe Trust Executive Committee.