Miss Mwelwa Chasaya is a qualified Molecular Scientist, Public Health Researcher, laboratory quality assurance specialist and upcoming Molecular Geneticist with over eight years experience. She is a graduate of Canning College and Murdoch University in Australia as well as James Lindt Institute in Switzerland. Miss Chasaya holds a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science and a Master of Public Health in Infectious Diseases. She is a current British Chevening Scholar studying a Master of Science in Medical Genetics and Genomics at Oxford Brookes University. She has coordinated Boston University projects in Zambia over the past few years. Mwelwa has also worked with key line ministries and institutions in Zambia including the Ministry of Health, the Zambia National Public Health Institute and Africa CDC Zambia office. Her work has been focused on global health and mortality surveillance spanning from laboratory diagnostics and research to Public Heath. She has mentored numerous public health laboratories in quality assurance through continuous quality improvement programs and external quality assessments. Miss Chasaya has published articles relating to maternal mortality and malaria during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia. As a health equity advocate, she is an alumni of the Global Health Corps Fellowship in Zambia. Miss Chasaya was awarded the most resilient Project Manager in 2024 and most innovative head of section under the Ministry of Health Ndola Teaching Hospital in 2018.
