Dr Tinashe Chikowore is an Investigator in the Channing Division of Network Medicine and the Genetics Division at Brigham Woman’s Hospital and an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on the application of genetics, Omics, and machine learning to nutrition-based and complex disease research. He is a recipient of a prestigious Wellcome Trust International Training fellowship that focuses on characterizing gene-lifestyle interactions in African populations. Recently, he received the Charles Epstein Excellence in Human Genetics Award from the American Society of Human Genetics for an outstanding abstract submitted and presented during a plenary session.He is the current chairperson of the H3Africa CVD Working group.