Biography

Prof. Chelsea Morroni is a sexual and reproductive health doctor and epidemiologist, based in Gaborone, Botswana, with 25 years’ experience working in Southern Africa. She focuses on improving the health of girls and women in low-resource/high-HIV burden settings through research, clinical care, policy, and advocacy.

Chelsea holds a Chair in Global Sexual and Reproductive Health at the University of Edinburgh, is an NIHR Global Health Research Professor, a Senior Researcher at Botswana Health Partnership, an Honorary Professor of Women’s Health at the University of Cape Town, and a research associate at Harvard School of Public Health. She founded and directs the Botswana Sexual and Reproductive Health Initiative (BSRHI), a research and training programme that works across Southern Africa. She has worked in advisory positions for African Ministries of Health, the WHO, UNFPA, International AIDS Society, Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, and industry, and is on the board of trustees of the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Research (ISSTDR) and The Margaret Pyke Trust. Chelsea has been awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Lifetime Full Fellowship of the Society of Family Planning in the U.S, and Honorary Fellowship of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare in the UK “for extraordinary dedication, commitment and achievement in SRH”. Chelsea is clinically active as a sexual and reproductive health doctor, providing care and training in Botswana and the UK.