Beatriz Manuel Chongo, MD, MHPE, PhD, a Co-Investigator for the PEN-Plus Partnership in the Mozambique Co-Secretariat of the NCDI Poverty Network, is a medical doctor, lecturer, and researcher. She is also Head of the Project Support Department at the Scientific Directorate at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo.

Dr. Manuel takes a multidisciplinary approach to teaching and learning and mixed methods’ research that encompasses the fields of medical education, family and community health, primary healthcare and health systems, public health, gender matters, research methods, evidence summaries, and evidence-informed Healthcare and project support. She is also a committed senior lecturer with more than 19 years of experience in leading Mozambican academic institutions teaching students and mentoring junior researchers from various social and cultural backgrounds. She has particular expertise in the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of curricula in student-centered teaching-learning methodology, the use of innovative teaching-learning methodologies, and the design of training programs on gender-based violence, medical education, intimate partner violence, and doctor-patient communication.

Dr. Manuel has been invited to peer review manuscripts. She holds a PhD in Health Sciences and in Educational Sciences from Ghent University in Belgium. There her doctoral research focused on ways to identify ways to improve curriculum content on intimate partner violence to enhance prevention and medical care in Mozambique. She holds a master’s degree in Health Professions Education from the Maastricht University in the Netherlands, where she explored human resources training strategies for people living with HIV/AIDS.