Veneranda M. Bwana is a Senior Research Officer (Public Health and Epidemiology) of the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Tanzania. At NIMR, she is the Head of Research Monitoring and Evaluation and the Quality Assurance Manager for the NIMR Amani Laboratory. She holds a PhD in Public Health of the University of Zambia, Lusaka, and MSc in Public Health and Epidemiology of Umeå University, Sweden. She is a graduate of Doctor of Medicine (MD) at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She is a public health professional and clinical research expert with over 17 years of health research experience mainly HIV, Tuberculosisi and malaria. She has extensive training and expertise in infectious disease epidemiological studies; implementation research; and quantitative data analysis for epidemiological studies.  She has published over 24 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. She has been involved in clinical and public health research funded by Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health, Global Funds for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Pfizer; International Development and Research, Canada (IDRC); Centre for Diseases Control (CDC), US and Korea National Institute of Health. She is currently pursuing a Post-doctoral fellowship at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Tanzania. Dr Veneranda is registered with the Medical Council of Tanganyika, registration number MCTOL54743. Other professional membership include the Medical Association of Tanganyika (MAT),  Medical Women Association of Tanzania (MEWATA), Pan African Mosquito Control Association (PAMCA) and Tanzania Public Health Association (TPHA).