Kasonde Mpanga is a researcher at the Zambia National Public Health Institute.
Kasonde Mpanga came to this fellowship at KRISP at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and CERI at the University of Stellenbosch to receive training on SARS-CoV-2, HIV, TB and another pathogen sequencing to improve his skills in genomic and bioinformatics to for him to support the Zambian wastewater project effectively.
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.