Rate My Professor Tobias Chirwa

Professor Tobias Chirwa serves as Head of the School of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand. He holds a BSc, Postgraduate Diploma, MSc and PhD from London University. His academic career includes serving as Head of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at Wits for several years. Prior to that, he worked as Research Fellow in Medical Statistics in the Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Unit of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and contributed to research projects in Mwanza, Tanzania.

Professor Chirwa is an established public health researcher and biostatistician with credentials in infectious disease epidemiology and non-communicable diseases. He maintains special research interests in HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. He has contributed to peer-reviewed publications and has taken responsibility for numerous research projects as project statistician. He has initiated and completed research collaborations with institutions including the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Centre for Health Policy, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), and Wits Health Consortium. Professor Chirwa has received major funding to establish research and training programmes across the African continent and was appointed Head of School effective 1 February 2017.