Dziwe Ntaba

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Credentials

MD

MPH

Bio

Dziwe Ntaba attended medical school at Oregon Health & Science University, earned an Masters of Public Health from Harvard University, and received global health fellowship training at Columbia University. Dr. Ntaba co-founded a non-profit organization—Village Health Works—that recently opened an exemplary 150 bed teaching hospital in Burundi, East Africa. He has extensive professional experience responding to various public health emergencies in different settings. Dziwe was awarded a Bush Foundation Fellowship as an academic embed with Minneapolis Health Department’s Opioid Response Team. Ntaba is currently focused on efforts to rapidly expand access to Medication for Addiction Treatment, with attention to optimizing equity impact in the Twin Cities.