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Ambele Judith Mwamelo
MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine.
Ambele Judith Mwamelo is a Mastercard Foundation Scholar at the University of Oxford pursuing an MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine. She is a member of Green Templeton College.
Ambele is an emerging global health leader from Tanzania with experience spanning research, service delivery, and policy development across national and regional levels.
Most recently, she worked as a Country Support Manager for HIV prevention at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), where she supported Ministries of Health and partners in introducing new long-acting HIV prevention technologies. Her work covered several high-burden countries in Africa, including Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia.
Previously, Ambele served as a consultant at the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, where she supported the development and monitoring of National Action Plans on Antimicrobial Resistance (NAP-AMR). As a regional trainer-of-trainers, she contributed to capacity-building in costing and budgeting to support resource mobilisation and domestic financing. A career highlight was her contribution to the 2023–2030 Regional AMR Strategy, which was endorsed by Member States and secured high-level political commitments across the region.
Earlier in her career, she worked in community-based HIV programmes and public health research. She has co-authored publications on AMR and other health topics, and contributed to national, regional, and global policy documents.
Ambele holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in Public Health: Biological Studies, Gender and Cultural Dynamics from St Olaf College in the United States.
After Oxford, she aims to take on a technical advisory role supporting the development of sustainable, scalable, and locally owned health policies. Her long-term goal is to hold a leadership position within a multilateral organisation, advancing Africa’s health agenda in a shifting global health landscape.
Outside of work, Ambele enjoys new challenges and is currently learning both French and Mixed Martial Arts.