Themba Chirwa is a Junior Programmer / Metadata officer for MEIRU, Main duties include Designing and Programming Data collection tools for all Studies conducted at MEIRU and performing other programming tasks. He holds a BSc. in Information and Communications Technology from Mzuzu University, Malawi.

Themba Joined MEIRU in 2014 as a field Interviewer, working under NCD and CAPS studies. In 2016 Themba took up Data Documentation roles, and then later in 2022 he took Programming roles which are also combined with Data documentation.