About

Carla Chibwesha, MD, MSc, is assistant professor of gynecologic oncology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She completed her fellowship in International Women’s Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She earned her MSc at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and her MD at Brown University. She completed her residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at Brown University. Since returning to Zambia in 2008, she has actively pursued her research interests in cervical cancer control, family planning and prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV. A former Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellow, Dr. Chibwesha currently spearheads a CDC-PEPFAR-funded initiative to reduce maternal mortality across two Eastern Province districts in Zambia. She is also a co-principal investigator for the UNC-UNCZA-Wits Partnership for HIV and Women’s Reproductive Health Training Program.

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  UNC-led consortium to study HIV-related cancers in sub-Saharan Africa

  A team of UNC researchers are partnering with colleagues at four institutions in Africa to study HIV-associated malignancies. With a five-year, $6 million grant from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute, the research consortium will look at screening and diagnosing innovations for three cancers common to people with HIV: Kaposi sarcoma, cervical cancer and lymphoma. Leading … Read more