Dr Sebastian Hachizovu is a Medical Doctor and a Public Health Specialist in disease control. He graduated from the University of Zambia, School of medicine in 2001 and later obtained a Master of Public Health in Disease Control from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium in 2010.
Dr Hachizovu started work a Junior Resident Medical Officer at Arthur Davison Children’s Hospital in Ndola Zambia in 2002, promoted to the position of Senior Resident Medical Officer in 2003. He served as Director of Clinical Services in the same hospital from 2005 to 2006. In 2006, he joined the Tropical Diseases Research Centre (TDRC) as a Scientific officer. In 2012, he was appointed as head of Clinical Sciences Department within the TDRC, the position he held until 2020. Currently, he is the head of Clinical services unit in TDRC.
Dr Hachizovu has been involved as an investigator in a number of clinical trials evaluating the safety, efficacy and chemoprophylactic abilities of various antimalarial drugs in children, adults and pregnant women. He has also served on a number of Data Safety Monitoring Boards in the field of malaria, as member of the Malaria case management Technical Working group and as mentor in the data to policy training under the ministry of Health in Zambia. Currently, he is in the process of registering as a PhD student at University of Antwerp, Belgium. His research project is an implementation evaluation of rectal artesunate in the treatment of severe malaria in children under five years in Zambia.