Professor Juliana Kagura serves as an Associate Professor in the Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). She oversees and coordinates the Implementation Science field of study. She also teaches courses in Implementation Science, Monitoring and Evaluation for Health Programmes, NCD Epidemiology and Advanced Epidemiology. Her research expertise and interest focus on life course approach to NCD risk. She served as a technical advisor to WHO/TDR programme on Implementation Research core competencies.

Latifat Ibisomi, PhD, MSc (Med), MSc, BSc (Hons) holds a PhD in Demography and Population Studies, MSc (Med) in Epidemiology & Biostatistics, MSc in Population Studies, and a BSc (Hons) in Statistics. She currently heads the Epidemiology and Biostatistics division, Wits School of Public Health. She also holds certifications in many specialized population, health, development, and management training programmes. Among other responsibilities, she is a co-Director at the BAMMISHO Health and Demographic Surveillance Site in Rustenburg, South Africa; a member of the Global Accrediting Body (GAB) for the Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network (TEPHINET); and an adviser on the WHO/TDR Implementation Research core competency framework. She is the PI for/manages the WHO/TDR and NIH implementation research grants for the school. She leads the teaching of and research on Quality Improvement at the Wits SPH and teaches and coordinates courses in Epidemiology, Research Methods, and Implementation Science. Her research focus is on promoting the sexual and reproductive health (including HIV and MCH), and well-being of the different segments of the African population using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.

Professor Tobias Chirwa heads the School of Public Health of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa. He is the Programme Director for the Sub-Saharan Africa Consortium for Advanced Biostatistics (SSACAB) and co-leads the Wits-University of North Carolina (UNC) partnership on expanding capacity in HIV Implementation Science in South Africa, together with the WHO/TDR Implementation Research. Prior to this, he was a Research Fellow in Medical Statistics at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

He has contributed towards curriculum development and capacity building in implementation science, epidemiology and biostatistics in Malawi and South Africa, and across the SSA region. His research has revolved around STIs and HIV, maternal and newborn health. He continues to work on HIV, tuberculosis diagnosis, treatment adherence and post-treatment survival, child health and more recently malaria transmission. His statistical interest is in longitudinal and survival data analysis. He has co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles.