Tendai Mugwagwa, PhD

Tendai Mugwagwa, PhD

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Senior Infectious Disease Modeller
Public Health England

About: Dr Tendai Mugwagwa is a senior infectious disease modeller and health economist at Public Health England (PHE). She is also a visiting Research fellow at Imperial College, London. Tendai graduated from AIMS in 2004 and went on to pursue her passion for health sciences. She obtained a Master’s in Applied Mathematics from the University of Cape Town in 2005. She went on to obtain a PhD in Theoretical Immunology from Utrecht University in the Netherlands in 2010. Tendai spent her postdoctoral fellowship years at the University of Rochester medical centre, USA and Imperial College London, UK were her research covered within host and population level mathematical models of HIV, Influenza A, TB and HCV. She joined PHE in 2013 where she now integrates infectious disease models with health economic models to provide policy makers with evidence for public health decisions. Her current focus is on TB epidemiology with particular focus on social groups with limited access to health care.