Profile
Title
Prof
Name and surname
Nkengafac Villyen MOTAZE
Job title
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Telephone
018 285 2227
E-mail
44802889@nwu.ac.za
Physical address
Building G23, G06, Potchefstroom Campus, Potchefstroom
Campus
Potchefstroom
Qualifications
MD, M.Sc., PhD
Expertise
Epidemiology, Medicine
Background
I am a Cameroonian medical epidemiologist currently based at Medicine Usage South Africa in North West University, South Africa. I completed my medical studies in Cameroon in 2007 and worked as a general practitioner before moving to Cape Town in 2012 where I completed my masters in Clinical Epidemiology at Stellenbosch University. I Joined the Center for Vaccines and Immunology at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa in 2014 where I led several surveillance and research projects on vaccine-preventable diseases. In 2016, I enrolled for a PhD in Epidemiology at Stellenbosch University which I completed in 2021.