About

Dr. Chagomerana is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and the Director of the Analysis and Manuscript unit at the University of North Carolina Project–Malawi. He obtained his MSc in Biostatistics from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and PhD in Epidemiology from UNC at Chapel Hill. Dr. Chagomerana was the HPTN International Scholar for 2018–2019 and a fellow at ACTG Statistical and Data Analysis Center, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in 2019–2020. He also received a grant for secondary data analysis from Project SOAR (Supporting Operational AIDS Research).  Dr. Chagomerana served as a Data Core Leader and Biostatistician at the University of Malawi, College of Medicine. His research interests include epidemiologic methods, HIV prevention, and epidemiology of HIV-related malignancies.

In the news

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  IGHID Investigators Participate in CROI Conference

  Investigators with the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases (IGHID) participated in the 2025 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in San Francisco, California, March 9-12. Following are some highlights.   In a CROI preview, Joe Eron, MD, was interviewed for the “Going Anti-Viral” IAS-USA podcast, discussing the state of HIV cure research … Read more

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  NICHD Grant Award Enables Researchers To Address Reasons For Vertical Transmission of HIV in Malawi As the Country Pursues Elimination Goals: Integrated Educational Cores Represent the Best of Capacity Building with Malawian Health Leaders

  Led by Mina Hosseinipour, MD, MPH, the NIH’s National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), has funded the project “Preventing Infant Infections with Implementation Science in Malawi.” (PRI3SM). The program, in partnership with the Republic of Malawi’s Ministry of Health, comprises three studies to address gaps in prevention services, striving for elimination of vertical … Read more

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  Friday Saidi Receives Scientific Achievement Awards

  Friday Saidi, MBBS, MMED, is first author of two papers published in 2021, that received Scientific Achievement Awards at UNC Malawi. The papers include: Term gravid uterus in a congenital umbilical hernia: a case report, published in the Journal of Medical Case Reports. Contributing IGHID authors include: Maganizo Chagomerana, PhD, Lameck Chinula, MD, and Jennifer Tang, MD, MSCR … Read more

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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

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