Kamunkwala Gausi

• Kamunkhwala is a PhD Student in the clinical pharmacology division at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

• She holds a master’s degree in Biostatistics and a bachelor’s degree of science in statistics and mathematics from the University of Malawi, Chancellor College. Her interest in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics emerged from her master’s thesis work where she developed a model characterizing drug induced QT/QTC in children with severe malaria anaemia receiving artemether-lumefantrine preceded by quinine.

• She now works on applying nonlinear mixed-effects modelling to characterize and overcome drug-drug interactions between antiretroviral and anti-tubercular treatment.