Professor Stephen Mshana was elected as an AAS Fellow in 2023. As a fellow, Professor Stephen Mshana contributes to the development of the Academy's strategic direction through participation in AAS activities and governance structures. This gears the Academy's vision of transforming African lives through science.
Country
Tanzania
Year Elected
2023
Discipline
Professor of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases
Country
Tanzania
Year Elected
2023
Discipline
Professor of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases
Professor Stephen Mshana is a professor of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases at the Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences (CUHAS) and consultant clinical microbiologist at the Bugando Medical Centre (BMC) Mwanza, Tanzania. He holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Dar es Salaam (1999), a Master of Medicine in Medical Microbiology from Makerere University (2006), a PhD in Clinical Microbiology from St. Augustine University of Tanzania in collaboration with the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Giessen, Germany (2011). He is also a Sub-Saharan Africa Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) fellow (2012) and has served in several committees for Tanzania Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Tanzania Commission for Universities and Tanzania Universities.
His research interests focus on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) especially Gram positive and Gram-negative multi-drug resistant (MDR) pathogens from humans, animals and environment. He has extensively researched the transmission of MDR pathogens in neonatal units. He also studied the epidemiology, diagnostic markers of tuberculosis (TB) and MDR TB. Prof. Mshana is furthermore working on the epidemiology and burden of vaccine preventable diseases (Hepatitis B Virus, Measles, Human papillomavirus, Rubella and Rotavirus). He has mentored scientists in the field of Medical Microbiology and infectious diseases from CUHAS, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, KCMC University and Sokoine University of Agriculture. To date, he has supervised more than 50 master and more than 15 doctoral students.
Prof Mshana continues to serve the academic community as external examiner in regional universities, assessing scholarly works of the faculty to be promoted through professorial ranks, as associate editor and reviewer of international journals and as grant proposal reviewer. He has authored over 250 research articles in peer-reviewed journals with a google scholar h-index 53 and i10-index 174 as of March 2024. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Mshana+se)
(https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ahtnxt8AAAAJ&hl=en)
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-mshana-455641104/)