Dr. Gerald Madziyire is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences, where he currently serves as the Acting Chairperson of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. With over 16 years of postgraduate experience, he has been teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate medical students since 2004 and is deeply committed to advancing medical education and research in women’s health.
Dr. Madziyire provides specialist clinical services at Zimbabwe’s largest teaching hospital and has contributed to several significant multi-centre collaborative research trials. These include the HPTN 046 trial (2006–2008), the Zimbabwe Abortion Incidence Study (2016–2018), and the ongoing WHO Global Sepsis Study (2017–present). His roles in these projects have ranged from protocol development and ethical approvals to field implementation, data management, and analysis. His experience in these studies has sharpened his expertise in research ethics, data integrity, and adverse event monitoring.
A passionate researcher and mentor, Dr. Madziyire has supervised over 10 postgraduate research projects and is an alumnus of the PERFECT Mentored Research Fellowship, through which he conducted an independent study on infertility. He is especially interested in emergency obstetrics, maternal mortality, safe abortion care, and infertility treatment.
Currently pursuing a postgraduate diploma in Sexual and Reproductive Medicine with the University of South Wales, Dr. Madziyire is working toward establishing an Assisted Reproduction Unit within his department to provide reproductive technologies to couples experiencing infertility. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, authored thought leadership pieces on maternal health and reproductive rights, and served as a reviewer for academic manuscripts.
Dr. Madziyire is also an alumnus of the Aspen New Voices Fellowship. Outside of his professional commitments, he is an avid marathon runner.
