| Let integrity lead.
| Let integrity lead.
Dr Anastasia (Tasha) Koch co-founded Eh!woza together with conceptual artist Ed Young in 2013 as an extra-curricular project during her PhD studies. The informal interest-driven initiative has developed into an independent NPO based in Cape Town supported by the Wellcome Trust. The organisation operates at the intersection of public engagement, youth advocacy, science communication and skills development to merge the biomedicine of disease with its social impact.
Tasha trained as a molecular mycobacteriologist under the supervision of Profs Digby Warner and Valerie Mizrahi at the MMRU and graduated with a PhD from the University of Cape Town in 2015. After several years of postdoctoral research, with fellowship support from the Carnegie Corporation, she shifted focus to take up the co-directorship of Eh!woza full-time in 2020.
Tasha is especially interested in translating complex scientific concepts for everyday people to encourage agency around health and in understanding the social determinants of health and how they influence the uptake of health interventions.
She maintains a part-time interest in biomedical research as an Honorary Lecturer at UCT and is a junior member of Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine.
Thanks to our valued partners and to all the Fellows who continue to contribute in many ways.
