Fortunate Machingura is a development policy and management specialist, an ethnographer with over 17 years’ extensive research experience crossing the fields of global health, demography and social policy in Africa and the United Kingdom. She holds a PhD in Development Policy and Management, and an MSc in Population Studies. Her research interests currently focus on the intersections between Key-Populations and HIV/AIDS, health, violence, sexuality, poverty, risk, and vulnerability with a particular interest in behavioural cross-sectional and longitudinal qualitative studies, participatory research and randomised controlled trials in Zimbabwe, Malawi and South Africa. Fortunate has extensive experience in the implementation of community-based health literacy-oriented interventions along with national policy initiatives in Health Management Information Systems, including Electronic Medical Records Systems(EMRs) and District Health Information System Software (DHIS2) in Zimbabwe. She has worked extensively with communities in Zimbabwe, Uganda, Botswana, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa and Malawi. Fortunate currently serves as the Research Director - Key populations, at the Centre for Sexual Health and HIV AIDS Research with close Research collaborations with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the Liverpool School for Tropical Medicine (LSTM), The Oxford University, Malawi Wellcome Trust and the Africa Health Research Institute in South Africa. She has recently joined the University College London’s Africa HIV Modelling group as an Affiliate. She volunteers her free time as a board member.