Dr Koofhethile is a Motswana scientist currently based in the United States of America. In 2017 she joined Prof. Max Essex laboratory at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), in Boston, USA as a Postdoctoral Fogarty Fellow and is now under the mentorship of Prof. Roger Shapiro and Prof. Phyllis Kanki. She is also a visiting/collaborative Postdoctoral fellow at The Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT & Harvard under the mentorship of Prof. Mathias Lichterfeld. She holds a Research Associate position at the Botswana Harvard Health Partnership (BHP), Botswana working closely with Dr. Joe Makhema and Dr. Sikhulile Moyo. She holds PhD in Immunology from University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa sponsored by Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD), Master’s Degree in Immunology from University of Birmingham, UK and a Bachelor of Science Degree with Honors in Medical Microbiology from the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK sponsored by the Government of Botswana.