Discipline of Virology

BIOSKETCH
Dr Muchengeti is the Head of Department of the South African National Cancer Registry (NCR), at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS). She also leads the IARC Global Initiative for Cancer Registry Development (IARC-GICR) Centre of Expertise in Johannesburg within the African Cancer Registry Network. She is a cancer epidemiologist with over 14 years of experience in cancer surveillance and epidemiological research, focusing on HIV-associated cancers, cervical cancer, and population-based cancer registration in African populations. She is a co-Principal Investigator of the South African HIV Cancer Match (SAM) Study and the South African Cervical Cancer Screening (SACCS) cohort. Dr Muchengeti is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand and a Research Associate at the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch University. She has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles and serves on several national and international advisory committees, including the South African Ministerial Advisory Committee on Cancer Prevention and Control.