Choolwe Nkwemu Jacobs, is a Global Health Specialist and Epidemiologist with over 10 years extensive experience in public health. She is Co-founder/Country lead for Women in Global Health Zambia Chapter and Head of Department for Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at University of Zambia. She uses a gender and health equity lens in evaluating health outcomes, utilisation and access to health services.  She has extensive experience working in global and public health in collaboration with government and different United Nations and other agencies on Gender, Sexual Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (SRMNCAH), HIV/AIDS and non-communicable diseases. She also extensively published on a wide range of health topics in peer reviewed journals and she is an academic editor in three journals (PLOS Global Public Health (Gender Section), Frontiers in Tropical Disease and the Zambia Health Press). She studied at the University of Zambia, University of Otago in New Zealand, University of Kwa Zulu Natal in South Africa, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University, in the USA.