Mwanatumu Mbwana
Associate Director, Evidence Generation | NEST/MDICMwanatumu Mbwana, PhD, RAC (US, EU) is the associate director of evidence generation for the NEST. Dr. Mbwana brings over 19 years of expertise working in research and diagnostics, quality assurance, and regulatory affairs, and has experience generating real-world evidence (RWE) obtained from registry-based electronic health records (EHRs). Prior to Nestcc, she worked as a regulatory affairs and compliance manager at Meso Scale Discovery and held laboratory research and regulatory compliance roles with Becton Dickinson, Kirkegaard & Perry Labs, and Digene Corporation.
Dr. Mbwana earned a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh with a focus on the secondary analysis of clinical trial and hospital registry data, an MS in biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University, and a BS in chemistry from the University of Maryland. She is also a regulatory affairs certified professional (RAC-US & RAC-EU) with the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS).
Email: mmbwana@mdic.org