Clementina Lwatula is a public health physician with a passion to apply public health principles in addressing health challenges of the population. She has been the University Medical Officer for the University of Zambia from 2008 to date. She leads a team of health care and health support professionals in the provision of health care and health promotion services to the university (staff members and their families as well as students) and surrounding community, ensuring service delivery that is responsive to the needs of a wide clientele including children as well as young and marginalized people. Anti-retroviral Therapy (ART) is one of the services that has been provided since 2005 with about 1,700 clients currently enrolled. Also provided are antenatal and post-natal clinics as well as the Children’s clinic. She provides oversight on all administrative, financial and clinical functions including epidemic preparedness and responses. She advises the University on health matters, ensuring all health related procedures conform to national policies. She works with various partners, both state and non-state, who support specific program components, in the process appropriately managing multicultural relations and leveraging resources from various partners with accountability and transparency for the benefit of the population being served. With other researchers at UNZA, Clementina has been involved in research focusing on three main areas namely young people with a focus on reproductive health including HIV prevention, treatment & care, operational research with a focus on systems or policy improvement as well and advocacy. Others include project evaluations and policy reviews

From 2002 to 2008 as Medical & Social Centre Co-ordinator for SOS Children’s Village of Zambia Trust, an international child care and development organization, she managed a  fifteen-member team in the provision of health care and health promotion services including psychosocial support to children under the care of the organization, staff and their families as well as offering of medical and outreach services to vulnerable households (most devastated by disease and poverty)  comprising mostly of women and children and community at large in the surrounding areas. She designed and managed successfully funded project proposals. She was responsible for successfully prepared annual plans including preparing, implementing and tracking the budget. She led proposal development, submission to various donors and led implementation of approved proposals. She was principal advisor to SOS Children’s Village of Zambia Trust on health matters including policy on HIV/AIDS and ensuring all health related procedures in the organization conform to national policies. She was in charge of the expansion of the Health program including designing and implementing various programs at community level such as health education/awareness and school health programs. She conducted training of community leaders/members in various aspects of health care especially those relevant to the contextual environment including home based care as well as assessment of children’s health vulnerability and other needs in poor communities/households and formulating appropriate responses with community involvement. She was responsible for strengthening operational systems. She previously worked As General Duty Medical Officer with at a private hospital as   well as at the hospitals owned by the Mines.

She was a recipient of the University of Zambia Vice Chancellor’s candidate for Labour Day Award for innovation and hard work in 2016, the Commemorative Fellowship from the Australian Federation of University Women, Queensland, and Australia in 2006, Summer Scholarship from the University of Queensland to review the Health Policy in Vietnam in 2006 ,  University of Zambia Year 2: Best overall student in Chemistry (physical, analytical and inorganic), Scholarship from the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines to study Medicine, given on academic merit  in 1990 and the best provincial candidate in the Grade 12 School Certificate Examinations of 1989.