Scholastika Ndatinda Iipinge D.Cur (Community Health Sciences) 2001 at Rand Afrikaanse University.
A senior Lecturer at the University of Namibia in the Nursing Department since 2002 and Convener of the Masters in Public Health course which started in 2003 and theme coordinator of Human Resources for Health in east and southern Africa for Equinet.
Dr Iipinge is a specialist in HIV/AIDS and is currently the Coordinator of the HIV/AIDS Unit since 2006 at the University. She has conducted various HIV/AIDS consultancies and research in general. She has done consultancy work for Unicef, UNDP, WHO, Ministry of Health and Social Services/Global Fund. She has just completed a consultancy for the Walvis Bay Corridor Group where she assisted the group in developing the HIV/AIDS Information Kit for Truck Drivers in Namibia. She has also completed “An Evaluation in changes and trends in the Sexual and Reproductive Health Policies in the SDAC region collaborating with the University of Helsinki”. Furthermore Dr Iipinge participated in the development of the National HIV/AIDS Policy and was part of the development of the MTP III document in 2003-4. In January 2009, she was nominated as Technical person in the development of the National Counseling and HIV Testing Guidelines. She is passionate about HIV and AIDS and poverty alleviation related issues. Because of that she is the chair of the education sectoral committee of the National Development Plan in Namibia. Furthermore, she a member of the Human Resources for Health Expert in the Afro Region/WHO constituted in Dakar 1n 2008.