Meet Chimba Sanga: Zambian physician, public health leader, LinkedIn influencer

Photo courtesy of Chimba Sanga Sanga, MPH ’26, is using his new training in epidemiology to improve HIV and TB care at home in Zambia At age seven, asked by his teacher what he wanted to be when he grew up, Chimba Sanga declared he would be a doctor. He’d never been asked that question before, but the answer came without thinking. “I went home and told my mom, ‘I don’t know whether the response I gave was correct, but I said I wanted to be a medical doctor,’” Sanga recalled. “She asked me why, and I told her, ‘Because I want to be like you. I want to help people.’” Sanga’s mother was a nurse, and her impact in their small community in Zambia was clear to Sanga. “I would visit her at the hospital and see her doing such good work caring for patients. And because the hospital was quite a distance away, patients would often come to our home as a first stop to ask her about symptoms or how to properly take medication,” he said. “Seeing people’s gratitude for her advice and care was indescribable. I really fell in love with medicine.” With his mother’s example
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