2024-2025 Cohort of Visiting Scholars
In partnership with Professor Alicia Yamin at The Petri Flom Center at the Harvard Law School and Professor Yonatan Grad in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, the 2024 – 2025 research scholars will advance their global health research work, which ranges from a project that examines how forms of institutional corruption affect the delivery of mental health care to advancing bioinformatics for comprehensive pathogen detection and analysis using metagenomic data.
Dr. Wonderful Choga
Medical researcher and bioinformatician at the Botswana Harvard Health Partnership
Dr. Wonderful Choga is a medical researcher and bioinformatician at the Botswana Harvard Health Partnership in Botswana. He holds a PhD in Medical Sciences and MSc in Medicine (Human Genetics). Dr. Choga is based at the Botswana Harvard Partnership (BHP), a collaboration between the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Ministry of Health of the Government of Botswana. Dr. Choga’s expertise spans computational biology, immunoinformatic, evolutionary biology, and host-pathogen interaction dynamics, with a particular focus on analyzing bacterial and viral genomes, including HIV, hepatitis viruses, and respiratory pathogens. In addition to his research contributions (>50 publications; >2900 citations), he is at the forefront of bioinformatics education, both regionally and internationally.
Professor Camila Gianella
Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Director of the Master’s in Political Sciences and International Relations at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Professor Camila Gianella received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Bergen. She holds an MSc from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and a degree in psychology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, where she is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Director of the Master’s in Political Sciences and International Relations. Professor Gianella’s research interests include the right to health, analysis of health systems and policies, sexual and reproductive rights and health, and socio-legal mobilization.
Photo Gallery
Professor Yonatan Grad (Mentor) and Dr. Wonderful Choga (Visiting Scholar) at the HGHI office.
Professor Alicia Yamin (Mentor) and Professor Camila Gianella (Visiting Scholar) at the HGHI office.