Prof Godfrey Biemba is Director and CEO for the National Health Research Authority in Zambia, Adjunct Research Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, Hon Associate Professor of Global Health at Lusaka Apex Medical University, Associate Professor of Public Health at University of Barotseland, Guest Lecturer in Health Systems Research at Levy Mwanawasa Medical University in Lusaka, Fellow of the Zambia Academy of Sciences, EDCTP Association Board Member from 2019 and inaugural member of the Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking Board of Directors. He is Medical Doctor and Public Health Specialist with training in Clinical Research, Ethics, and Health Systems. He has 36 years’ experience in the health sector as a medical practitioner, researcher, capacity builder, and public health manager. He has extensive experience in conducting clinical trials, community-based evaluations, impact evaluations of public health programs, situational analyses in the areas of malaria, health systems, orphans and vulnerable children, water, sanitation and hygiene, road safety, maternal, neonatal, and child health, and HIV/AIDS. He has 104 publications, out of which 72 are peer reviewed articles.