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I am a Consultant Psychiatrist with expertise in mental health service development with a focus on treatment of depression in People Living with HIV in low resource settings. I have developed expertise in health professional education, mentorship and leadership. Currently, I am the Chairperson of the Department of Health Professions Education & Student Support, and Lecturer in the Psychiatry Unit at the University of Zimbabwe, providing strategic leadership on all aspects of medical education and mental health in Zimbabwe. Before moving back to the University of Zimbabwe in 2010, I spent 3 years in Swaziland developing mental health services. The country had gone over 5 years without a Psychiatrist, and I was instrumental in establishing systems in the Psychiatric hospital, Forensic hospital, and the National Mental Health Services. I wrote the national mental health treatment guidelines and ensured they were incorporated into the Swaziland Essential Drug List. I also led the writing up of International Centre for Aids care and treatment Program (ICAP) mental Health HIV management section in Swaziland. I returned to Zimbabwe in 2010 where I rejoined the Department of Psychiatry. I have worked as Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry from 2013 to 2016. I have worked as co-Investigator on several PEPFAR- and NIH-funded grants, laid the groundwork for the proposed research by developing my skills in mentorship, medical education and Leadership by completing in 2013 a one-year (3 modules) course at the University of Zimbabwe called ‘Health Education Advanced Leadership for Zimbabwe’ (HEALZ). In addition, I successfully administered the Improving Mental Health Education and Research Capacity in Zimbabwe (IMHERZ) project, collaborated with other researchers, and produced several peer-reviewed publications from each project. I am currently an institutional Lead of AMARI programme which is a Wellcome Trust grant (2015-2020) that supports PhD and MPhil training and mentorship. I am also a co-PI on the Tendai project an RCT funded by an NIH grant that is looking at treating depression by a lay counselor administered intervention to improve adherence to ARVs in the HIV care clinic. As a result of these experiences, I am aware of the importance of frequent communication among project members and of constructing a realistic research plan, timeline, and budget.