Texas Children's Global Health Network Leaders

Dr. Mogomotsi Matshaba, Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, and Executive Director- Botswana-Baylor Children’s Clinical Centre of Excellence Trust, is a graduate of University College of Dublin, National University of Ireland.  He worked as a medical officer in Botswana from 2005-2008, during which time he spent one year as a physician-in-training at the Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Center of Excellence. He has postgraduate training in HIV management, trauma management, pediatric nutrition, gastroenterology and hepatology, and completed his residency training in pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in 2011. 

From 2011 to 2014 he was the Associate Director- Training and Clinical Services at the Botswana- Baylor Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence in Gaborone, Botswana. In 2014 he moved to Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) Centre of Excellence as the Interim Executive Director and returned to Botswana to resume his duties as the Deputy Director at the Botswana Centre of Excellence at the end of the same year. In 2017, Dr. Matshaba became the Executive Director of the Botswana-Baylor Children’s Clinical Centre of Excellence Trust.

He is a national leader in pediatric healthcare in Botswana and is the current National Coordinator and Chief Advisor for the Presidential COVID-19 Task Force. He sits on several Ministry of Health Committees as the pediatric expert; Botswana National HIV Guidelines Committee, TB/ HIV Integration Technical Working Group, Drug Forecasting and Purchasing Committee, TB/HIV Drug Resistance Technical Working Group, and Adolescent HIV Guidelines Committee. He chairs the WHO-supported National Validation Committee for the Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV/Syphilis and Hepatitis. In the regional and international arena, he is a member of the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Education, steering committee member of Human Health and Heredity fo Africa (H3Africa) and Global Alliance for Genomics (GA4GH).