The Scholarship
The Scholars
Sumaiyya Thawer
Tanzania & University of Cape Town, 2013 After completing my Masters in Immunology & Infectious Diseases at the University of Cape Town, I went to the UK in 2014 under the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship to pursue a Masters degree in Public Health at Imperial College London. Thereafter, I returned to my hometown in Tanzania to work in the health sector. I Currently work in the Monitoring and Evaluation Department of the NETCELL project of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Dar-es-salaam. My work involves providing various supportive roles for malaria surveillance and response activities to the National Malaria Control Program of the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children of Tanzania.