Tsitsi Chawatama
Dr Tsitsi Chawatama is a Zimbabwean born paediatrician who has worked in Ethiopia and is based at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London, United Kingdom.
School / Education
Tertiary: Postgraduate Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School and a Masters in International Child Health from the University College London. [1]
Service/Career
Chawatama spent her formative years in Zimbabwe before working in Ethiopia as a Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health/Volunteer Service Overseas Fellow on a UNICEF funded initiative developing an education program, whilst contributing to the improvement of neonatal and paediatric services including HIV care.[1]
In January 2021, Chawatama joined Save the Children. [2]
She replaced Charles Steel, who served as interim chair for two years since the early departure of Peter Bennett-Jones who had stepped down in December 2018 after making comments to staff that could be seen as being at odds with a review the charity was conducting into its working culture. Chawatama was appointed for an initial two years with the possibility of being reappointed for up to two further three-year terms, for a maximum of eight years in total. [3]
At the time Tsitsi Chiwatama joined Save the Children she was involved with three other NGOs. On 16 July 2015 Chawatama was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Sentebale, a charity co-founded by Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and the Duke of Sussex to support vulnerable children in Lesotho and Botswana. [1]
She is also vice-chair of AFRUCA-Safeguarding Children, which promotes the protection of children from BAME communities in the UK, Europe and Africa; and is a safeguarding trustee of UK-Med which responds to health emergency responses around the world.[2]
Chawatama is a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (RCPCH) and the Children’s HIV Association UK (CHIVA). [1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Dr Tsitsi Chawatama joins the Sentebale Board, Sentebale, Published: July 2015, Retrieved: January 28, 2021
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 NHS PAEDIATRICIAN TO CHAIR SAVE THE CHILDREN UK, Save the Children, Published: January 25, 2021, Retrieved: January 28, 2021
- ↑ Andy Ricketts, Save the Children UK appoints paediatrician as new chair, Third Sector, Published: January 27, 2021, Retrieved: January 28, 2021
