Doctor Eusebio Macete

Dr Eusebio Macete, until recently was the Director of Manhiça Health Research Centre, and is now nominated to lead the Mozambique’s Pharmacies, SA. He graduated in medicine at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo Mozambique. He obtained a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the Pompeu Fabra University and PhD degree from Barcelona University in Barcelona, Spain.

Dr Macete has two decades of experience in research. He started working at the Epidemiology Department of the Ministry of Health from 1996 to 1999. He joined the CISM in 1999 as a part of the National Directorate Ministry of Health staff. In 2002, he became the Coordinator of the Manhiça Health Research Centre. In 2007, Dr Macete worked as an intern at the IVR Malaria Vaccine Initiative at the World Health Organization, Geneva. Since then, he has participated in the design, implementation and analysis of several clinical trials, including the evaluation of intermittent preventative malaria treatment in infants, and the evaluation of the RTS,S malaria vaccine in Mozambique.

In 2008/09, he was Chair of the Clinical Trials Partnership Committee CTPC. In 2011, he was a member of the Steering Committee of the Initiative to Strengthen Health Research Capacity in Africa (ISHReCA). Between 2011 and 2014, he was Vice Chair of the INDEPTH network. Since 2015, he has been member of the advisory board of the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at the Lisbon University in Portugal. He represents Mozambique at the EDCTP General Assembly and serves as Vice Chair of the EDCTP Association. He acted as coordinator of the TESAII network (including Centres of Excellence in Southern Africa) and is the Chair of the Polio Eradication Commission in Mozambique.