Dr Roma Chilengi is a Zambian physician, epidemiologist and vaccinologist. He is presently the Chief Scientific Officer at the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) and heads the Enteric Disease and vaccine Research Unit. He is also Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA).

His interests are enteric disease research, vaccine development and clinical trials in general. He holds multiple research grants and is presently an EDCTP Senior Research Fellow.