Dr. Manasa is an Associate Professor in virology and molecular diagnostics at the University of Zimbabwe’s College of Health Sciences. His research work has mostly been on molecular diagnostics and epidemiology of viral pathogens focusing on HIV, respiratory viruses, and hepatitis viruses. He is currently seconded to the Office of the Vice Chancellor as the manager of the University of Zimbabwe’s Innovation Hub. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he has been providing technical support to the Laboratory Pillar of the National COVID-19 taskforce. He has been coordinating COVID-19 testing at the African Institute of Biomedical Science and Technology (AiBST) in support of the National Microbiology Reference Laboratory (NMRL). He has almost 20 years of international experience in molecular diagnostics and HIV drug resistance. His interests are leveraging advances in genomic technologies to provide innovative healthcare solutions in resource-limited settings. He has postdoctoral training from Stanford University in California, USA, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. He has received postgraduate training fellowships from the Swiss-South African joint research program, the NIH’s Fogarty Centre, and Gilead sciences. He is a council member for the Zimbabwean Medical Laboratory and Clinical Scientist Council, where he chairs the education subcommittee and is a member of the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe’s Laboratory subcommittee.