Bariki Mtafya

Dr. Bariki Mtafya is a research scientist and head of laboratory sciences at NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Centre, Tanzania. Bariki has a background in Molecular biology and a PhD in Molecular microbiology. He has more than 10 years of biomedical research experience on infectious disease mainly focused on understanding the mechanisms of infectious diseases and using the knowledge to develop novel methods for diagnosis and assessment of treatment response. In the past 10 years, he worked as a laboratory Investigator for various studies including drug and vaccine trials for TB and HIV, TB diagnostic studies and published over 15 publications on TB/HIV co-infections in peer review journals. Bariki is the Co-Investigator for the StAAHR at NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Centre.