Zinhle graduated from AIMS South Africa in 2015 and is currently a Junior Researcher at the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA). Her research focuses on applying mathematical modelling to study the effects of climate change on vector-borne diseases. Her current work uses mathematical models to evaluate the potential risk and spread of dengue virus if introduced in South Africa.
She holds a Research Master’s degree in Mathematics from Stellenbosch University, where her project employed dynamical models to investigate the impact of temperature changes on tsetse fly population dynamics.
Zinhle is actively involved in capacity-building and knowledge sharing. She is a faculty member of the annual Clinic on the Meaningful Modeling of Epidemiological Data (MMED) at AIMS South Africa and serves as a facilitator for the SACEMA-UNITID Epidemiological Modelling Workshop. In addition, she has taught short courses offered by SACEMA.