Dr. Gad Murenzi is an investigator with Central Africa IeDEA. He is responsible for leading scientific research and capacity building activities of the IeDEA Rwanda program. His research interests include HIV, cancer (mainly HPV related cancers) and other NCDs. Previously based at Research for Development (RD Rwanda) and the Rwanda Military Referral and Teaching Hospital, Dr. Murenzi directed the Einstein-Rwanda Research and Capacity Building Program and he served as Investigator and Primary Colposcopist of the Cervical Cancer Screening Project and Coordinator of research laboratory development. He is also a high resolution anoscopy (HRA) provider and an anatomic pathologist.
Dr. Murenzi completed his medical degree at the National University of Rwanda and did a post-doctoral fellowship in genecologic pathology and cytopathology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York-USA. He then completed a Master of Public Health (MPH) at the University of Rwanda and a Master of Medicine in Anatomic Pathology at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania.