[Profile] Fortunate Machingura—tackling climate change and disease

Fortunate Machingura and her siblings were raised by their mother in Victoria Falls, a town on the Zambezi river in north-western Zimbabwe. Like almost every family they knew, they had been tragically impacted by the HIV epidemic. In the early 2000s, they also had to contend with Zimbabwe's raging inflation and political instability. Attending an all-girl's school in Harare, Machingura did not know yet the role climate and health sciences would take in her life. “But I was already developing an interest in natural resource governance, and the social, structural, and environmental factors that shape people's access to health, food, land, education, and basic freedoms,” she tells The Lancet Infectious Diseases.