PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBER

Munyaradzi Makoni

Munyaradzi is an award-winning science journalist whose reporting spans agriculture, climate change, the environment, marine sciences, health, and higher education. His work has been published by leading international outlets including EOS (Advancing Earth and Space Sciences), Forskning & Framsteg, Hakai Magazine, Mongabay, Nature, Physics World, Chemistry World, SciDev.net, The Lancet, The Scientist, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation, among others.

He was a 2012 fellow of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Research Africa and has participated in the prestigious journalist-in-residence programme of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp (ITM). In 2019, he won the Best Feature Award from the African Academy of Sciences Science Journalism Awards. Munyaradzi now serves as a Science Communicator at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), where he continues to share science-driven stories on Africa across the globe.