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Chisaka Pamu

Chisaka Pamu

Contact information


chisaka.pamu@st-annes.ox.ac.uk

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SUPERVISORS

Prof Catherine Molyneux

Dr Sebastian Fuller

Dr Margaret Kasaro

Chisaka Pamu

DPhil Student

EDUCATION

  • MSc Translational Health Science, University of Oxford 2022
  • MSc Biomedical Science, Nottingham Trent University 2019
  • BSc Biomedical Science, Nottingham Trent University 2017

 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  • Research assistant reporting to Anjali Sharma -Senior Global health specialist - Implementation Science Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) February 2023
  • District Laboratory Coordinator, Ministry of Health, Monze Southern Province, Zambia, June 2020 – October 2021
  • Biomedical Science Intern, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka Zambia Jan 2020 – June 2020

Recent Publications

  • Rhodes Scholarship (Zambia & St Anne’s, 2021)
  • Health Professions Council of Zambia Certificate  HPCZ/101/2/23/01025
  •  W.H.O Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response Training Certificate (IDSR) 2020
  •  DHIS2 Covid-19 Contact Tracing Training Certificate 2021
  •  W.H.O External competency Assessment Malaria Microscopy (Level 4) 2021
  • Folotiya Memorial Scholarship

THESIS

  • The challenges and opportunities of introducing sustainable Point of Care Tests (POCTs) for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Zambia.

SUMMARY

Chisaka is  Biomedical and Translational Health scientist with competencies in laboratory diagnostics and implementation science.

Following her MSc in Biomedical science she managed the laboratory activities of 41 health facilities in Monze, under the Ministry of health during the Covid Pandemic.

Chisaka encountered many ‘complex’ social, economic, and cultural challenges when integrating Covid -19 testing into clinical care, that prompted her to pursue the MSc in Translational Health Science (THS) at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

Her first-class case study on the implementation of the District Health Information System-2 (DHIS-2) tracker for COVID-19 surveillance in Monze, emphasized the value of participatory methods in guiding implementation strategies. Further igniting her interest in investigating methods for translating novel technologies into practice and the implications of this on the health systems and populations of low- and middle-income countries.

More recently she has dabbled in implementation research  by assisting rapid literature reviews, concept development and data extraction for global health professionals within Zambia and the University of Oxford.

Chisaka’s unique skills and experience are currently being applied to a project investigating the  challenges and opportunities of introducing sustainable Point of Care Tests (POCTs) for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Zambia.

Address:

Level 5, Room 5800
John Radcliffe Hospital
Headley Way
Headington
OX3 9DU
United Kingdom