Professor Francisca Mutapi FRSE

Professor of Global Health Infection and Immunity, University of Edinburgh

Professor Francisca Mutapi, is an award winning international Global Health Researcher and Leader. She is a professor in Global Health Infection and Immunity, co-Director of the Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA) Partnership at the University of Edinburgh, where is also the Principal’s Senior Advisor on Africa. She conducts and leads basic scientific research that has had an extraordinary impact on the policy, practice and implementation of NTD control, especially in Africa. She has contributed to shaping national and global NTD policies by working closely with the WHO, African Union and local governments in affected countries, impacting millions of lives. She is helping shape research and training in Africa through independent advisory boards. She sits on several advisory bodies including the WHO Africa Regional Director’s Advisory Board, the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (formerly DFID) Science Advisory Group, several WHO NTD Strategic and Technical Advisory Groups, and chairs the WHO Africa Vaccine Efficacy Monitoring Steering Committee. She is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and the Zimbabwe Academy of Sciences. She was a founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland.

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