Doreen Mainza Shempela is the Director of Laboratory Services and research at the Churches Health Association of Zambia.
Doreen Mainza Shempela came to this fellowship at KRISP in University of KwaZulu-Natal and CERI at University of Stellenbosch to receive training on SARS-CoV-2, HIV, TB and other pathogen sequencing in order to gain a strong foundation in genomics to build upon and scale up the waste water project she is currently involved in.
Duration of the fellowship: 10 April 2023 to 21 April 2023.
Trained received: Hands-on sequencing on Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) and Illumina COVID-seq sequencing and bioinformatics analysis.
Fellowship sponsors: Rockefeller Foundation.