Dr. Motswedi Anderson is a Wellcome International Training Fellow /BHP Research Associate. She has been with Botswana Harvard Health Partnership since 2006. Her research interests are in viral hepatitis (B, C, D and E) and human immunodeficiency virus. She completed her PhD in Biological Sciences in 2018 and her project was ‘Prevalence and molecular characterization of hepatitis B virus infection in Botswana’. She did Bsc in Biomedical Sciences with University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa in 2005. She currently holds a Wellcome International Training Fellowship and an EDCTP-AREF training Fellowship. Her current project is ‘Occult Hepatitis B Virus Infections in HIV-1- Infected Individuals in Botswana: Incidence, Kinetics and Mechanisms’. She aspires to be a renowned researcher and to play a key role in viral hepatitis elimination.