UKZN's Dr Tivani Mashamba-Thompson

Tivarihanyo, aka Dr Tivani Mashamba-Thompson, joins the SuperScientists crew! Tivani’s work is all about speed. She studies point-of-care testing, medical tests that can be done at the clinic or at home instead of having to be transported to a laboratory. She studies how effective point-of-care (POC) tests are, their impact on health outcomes, and how to implement and scale POC tests to reach more people. Tivarihanyo means “know your health” in Xitsonga, Tivani’s mother tongue, and making medical results easier to come by, does just that.