Provost Visiting ProfessorMuhimbili University, Tanzania
Professor Makani (MD, PhD, FRCP, FTAAS) is a Physician Scientist (MD, PhD) in Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) www.muhas.ac.tz & Provost Visiting Professor, Imperial College London, UK https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.makani. She is Principal investigator of SickleInAfrica http://www.sickleinafrica.org/
She trained in Medicine (Tanzania), specialized in Internal Medicine (UK), and completed her PhD in clinical epidemiology of SCD (UK). She was a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow [Training 2003 – 2009; Intermediate 2012 - 2017], Tutu Leadership Fellow (2009) www.alinstitute.org and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford (2003 - 2016).
She received the 2011 Royal Society Africa Award http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd17odE1YLs on the application of genomic research to improve health and find a cure for sickle cell disease. She is Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of UK (FRCP) and Fellow of the Tanzania Academy of Sciences (FTAAS).