Darlinda Jiba, MBChB
Internal Medicine Resident and Clinical Research Officer, University of Sierra Leone Teaching Hospitals Complex - Under the West African College of Physicians
Dr. Darlinda Jiba is a young female Sierra Leonean doctor and an early career researcher. She graduated with an MBChB from College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone is currently doing a residency training in Internal Medicine (with keen interest in Infectious Diseases) at the University of Sierra Leone Teaching Hospitals Complex.
Dr Jiba has over five (5) years of experience in clinical medicine and research and has co-authored over twenty (21) research papers, eighteen (18) of which are published in peer-reviewed journals with publications on HIV/AIDS used in updating the national HIV/AIDS guidelines.
She was the former national case management pillar research coordinator at the National COVID-19 Emergency Response Center, Sierra Leone. Dr Jiba also offer voluntary STI services to some NGOs dealing with key populations in Sierra Leone.