Staff Profiles

BSc(Med Sciences),

MBChB(Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery)

MSCE(Master of Clinical Epidemiology)

Global health and leadership fellowship

Dr. Molefi is a senior Lecturer and Epidemiologist in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Botswana. Dr Molefi’s teaching experience spans over five(5) years teaching at University. He teaches mainly principles of Epidemiology & Biostatistics to both undergraduates and postgraduates students. He is a seasoned scholar and adept at leading research initiatives. He has to date co-authored 18 research papers in reputable journals including Clinical Infectious Diseases journal and has been a reviewer for the likes of BMC, PLoS one etc.  He trained with the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) while at the University of Pennsylvania and possesses further training in Clinical trials  and translational research . He is also  Global Health scholar with a wide research collaboration network( Botswana-UPenn Partnership-Botswana ,University of Pennsylvania Global Health-US, Fudan University-China,  St. George's University-UK, Universities of Pretoria and Walter-Sisulu- South Africa etc. He is also an investigator  for the D71 and D43 training  grants .Dr. Molefi is also co-chair for the National Validation for the elimination of Mother-to-Child transmission of HIV and syphilis.  

Principles of Epidemiology and biostatistics

Clinical Research Methods 

Global health and leadership

Communicable diseases 

Implementation Science

Health economics

Project planning & management

Communicable disease(HIV and the related opportunistic infections)

Quasi-experimental methods for public health interventions

Evaluation of psychometric tools to complement clinical care 

Infectious Diseases Epidemiology(HIV, TB)

Chronic Diseases Epidemiology( Cancers)

Psychometric measurements tools( Health related quality of life measures)

1. Early versus delayed antiretroviral therapy and cerebrospinal fluid fungal clearance in adults with HIV and cryptococcal meningitis

         Bisson GP, Molefi M et al. Early versus delayed antiretroviral therapy and cerebrospinal fluid fungal clearance in adults with HIV and cryptococcal meningitis. Clin Infect Dis.       2013 Oct;57(7):1067

2. AMBITION-cm: intermittent high dose AmBisome on a high dose fluconazole backbone for cryptococcal meningitis induction therapy in sub-Saharan Africa: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

         Molefi M, Chofle A, Molloy S et al.

        Trials 2015, 16:276 (17 June 2015)

3. Short Course High-dose Liposomal Amphotericin B for HIV-associated Cryptococcal Meningitis: A phase-II Randomized Controlled Trial

          Jarvis JN, Leeme TB, Molefi M et al.

 Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Jan 18;68(3):393