Constance Nyamukapa holds a degree in Social Work (University Of Zimbabwe School Of Social Work in 1996). On completion of studies, she worked as a Government probation officer and then a superintendent at a children’s home. The social work training included a fieldwork placement with an HIV research project and this exposure lead her to take interest in research. Constance left the children‘s home and joined the Manicaland Centre for Public Health as a fieldwork supervisor in 1998. She was awarded a Wellcome Trust Masters Research Training Fellowship at the London School of Economics in 2000 and obtained MSc in Population and Development. Her studies’ main focus was on the effects of HIV-associated orphanhood in eastern Zimbabwe (2001). In 2008 she completed a PhD in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London, focusing on psychological distress in orphaned and vulnerable children in eastern Zimbabwe. Constance currently holds the position of Research Operations Director, a role requires her to act as the Centre’s research projects Country PI coordinating all fieldwork activities, and contribute to the development of new projects. Their principal research interests are evaluation of national and promising new HIV interventions (including scientific trials and use of HIV prevention cascades, HIV and its effects on children, the social determinants and effects of HIV infection (including intimate partner violence), and HIV surveillance.
