Donald is a holder of an Msc in Clinical Biochemistry (MDCB, UZ). He is a Clinical Scientist with 12 years experience spanning between private and public diagnostic sectors. He was employed as laboratory Manager at a private flagship and teaching laboratory in Harare. Have also been involved in lecturing on a part time basis at the University of Zimbabwe DMLS since 2016. That is when i developed interest to pursue the Dphil route of his career.  He wanted to study infectious diseases. After attending the Advanced Genomics workshops the BRTI d43 project conducted he developed interest in HIV Drug Resistance. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Drug metabolism has always been an area of interest for me as our population is now living longer on life saving medications. But the complexities of these drug-drug interactions in our population needs to be explored and studied further to produce solutions for our own population. With that he decided to pursue a Dphil study zeroing in on Host genetics, drug drug gene interactions and their associated treatment outcomes in HIV/TB coinfected population. Treatment outcomes he will interrogate include adverse events, toxicity profiles, viral suppression and HIV Drug Resistance