Dr Anastasia Koch is the co-founder and co-director of Eh!woza. The organisation was established in 2013 as an informal collaboration between researchers at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM), conceptual artist Ed Young, social scientists, and young people from Khayelitsha, a peri-urban township in Cape Town. In 2020, Eh!woza was awarded a Wellcome Trust Discretionary Award in Public Engagement, which facilitated the organisation’s transition into an independent NPO. Eh!woza enlists beneficiaries as active partners and facilitate access to accurate information while igniting frank conversations, storytelling and representation of health and disease. Long-term goals are to encourage positive health-seeking behaviour, engender trust, and decrease stigma. Before working fulltime on Eh!woza, Anastasia was a junior research fellow at the Molecular Mycobacteriology Research Unit (IDM, UCT), which she maintains in a parttime position. Anastasia’s biomedical research interests involve using genomics to understand the transmission and pathobiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.