1. Pride Chigwedere is most notable for leading a team of Harvard researchers who demonstrated that South African President Thabo Mbeki's AIDS policies led to more than 300 000 deaths.
14 Facts About Pride Chigwedere
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Pride Chigwedere then joined UNAIDS as Coordinator for Universal Access for 21 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, before taking the role of Senior Advisor to the African Union where he counseled the African Union and its Organs AU Commission, Pan African Parliament, NEPAD, African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights etc.
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Pride Chigwedere's research is published in peer reviewed journals including the Journal of Virology, Human Immunology, AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, and JAIDS, and he served as editorial advisor for the British Medical Journal special theme issue on Africa.
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Pride Chigwedere's work has been the subject of front-page articles in The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, and The Times, was featured on BBC, PBS and CNN, was commented on by leaders such as President Bill Clinton, and is the basis of a documentary 'The Price of Denial'.
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Pride Chigwedere has been interviewed on CNN, has archived presentations on ReachMD Radio and the WGBH-TV Forum Network, a service of PBS and NPR, and served as a health columnist for the Daily News, Zimbabwe, and his opinions have appeared on HBO television.
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In 2006, Pride Chigwedere delivered the Lowell Lecture at the Boston Museum of Science, and he was the keynote speaker at the 2006 International Conference on AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children where he was honored by the Boston City Council for his efforts in fighting the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
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In 2011, Pride Chigwedere was honoured as one of Ten Outstanding Young Zimbabweans by Junior Chamber International, for his contributions to medical science and research.
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In 2015, Pride Chigwedere was awarded the Harvard Chan Alumni's Emerging Public Health Leader Award for his work "at the center of the AIDS Response" in Africa.
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In 2016, Pride Chigwedere was Zimbabwe's candidate for the position of the African Union Commissioner for Social Affairs 2017 to 2020.
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Pride Chigwedere earned a doctorate in immunology and infectious diseases with a second major in ethics of public health practice and an interdisciplinary certificate in the epidemiology of infectious diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health where he was one of three finalists for the Albert Schweitzer Award, the school's highest honor to graduating students.
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Pride Chigwedere conducted post-doctoral work at the Harvard AIDS Initiative supervised by renowned retrovirologist Max Essex who is especially known for being first to provide the serological evidence that AIDS is caused by a retrovirus in 1983.
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Pride Chigwedere was the recipient of the Oak Foundation Award and Forgaty Fellowship for thesis and research support, was founding member and served as president of the Africa Health Forum, and student representative for immunology and infectious diseases.
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Pride Chigwedere served as the Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Medical Students Association, the Medical School Representative for the University Interfaculty Games, played soccer in the Socrates team, and was a demonstrator in Physiology and Anatomy to medical and pharmacy students.
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Pride Chigwedere then worked as a Resident Medical Officer at Harare Central Hospital and the Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals where he did rotations in general and neurosurgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and pediatrics.