Francisca Mutapi
Francisca Mutapi is a Professor in Global Health Infection and Immunity, co-Director of the Global Health Academy at the University of Edinburgh, and Deputy Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Global Health Research Unit Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa. She is the first black woman known to have been awarded a professorship by the University of Edinburgh. Early life and education Mutapi was born in and grew up in Zimbabwe. She gained her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences in 1991 from the University of Zimbabwe, winning the BSc programs student award and the best BSc Honours student award in Biological Sciences. She gained a DPhil in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford, as a Beit Trust Scholar. She is an alumnus of Linacre College, Oxford. Career After completing her PhD, Mutapi's postdoctoral training was at the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp from 1997 to 1999. She went on to lectureships at St Hilda's College, Oxford and in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. She has also worked in the Department of Microbiology at Birkbeck College and the Department of Clinical Veterinary Studies at the University of Glasgow. In 2002 Mutapi joined the University of Edinburgh