Ngweina Magitta
Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tnazania
Biography
Dr. Magitta received medical training from the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania in 2001. He obtained a PhD in Medicine from the University of Bergen in Norway in 2010, where he studied the genetics of Autoimmune Polyendocrine Syndrome Type 1. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) and a Lecturer of Biochemistry at the School of Health Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. His research interest is on chronic non-communicable diseases of public health importance in Africa.