Inaugural Lecture – Professor Euphemia Sibanda

Overcoming stumbling blocks: harnessing partnerships and mixed methodologies to improve HIV and sexual and reproductive health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa

In her inaugural lecture, Professor Euphemia Sibanda reflected on her journey to understand the barriers that prevent different population groups in Zimbabwe, and similar settings, from accessing evidence-based HIV and sexual and reproductive health services.

She showed how partnerships with communities, policymakers and researchers across disciplines and geographies can improve health outcomes. Her work brings together a mix of methods to assess epidemiological impact and cost, alongside qualitative research that helps explain how and why interventions work in specific contexts.