Mogomotsi Matshaba, MD, MB BCh BAO, BMedSci, Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Retrovirology, Baylor College of Medicine, and Executive Director- Botswana-Baylor Clinic, is a graduate of University College of Dublin, Ireland. He then completed his residency training in pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine (2008 to 2011). He is interested in paediatric HIV infection research, ethics and implementation science. He is the principal investigator of the NIH funded Collaborative African Genomics Network (CAfGEN) leading a team of researcher from 6 institutions and 4 countries and The Individual Findings in Genetics Research in Africa (IFGeneRA) H3Africa ELSI Collaborative Centre. The 2 grants are currently training 3 MSc and 12 PhDs in Genomics, Bioinformatic and Bioethics in Botswana, Eswatini and Uganda. He is the Chairman of Botswana’s National HIV/Syphilis Elimination Validation Committee and the National Coordinator for the Botswana Presidential COVID 19 Task Force. He sits in several Ministry of Health and Wellness Committees as the paediatric HIV expert. On the international stage he serves in the Inter-Agency Task Team on the Prevention and Treatment of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women, Mothers and Children (IATT), Geneva and is past Chair of Human Health and Heredity in Africa (H3Africa). He was awarded the International Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology Transplant and Nutrition in Jaipur, India in 2016.
