I trained in veterinary medicine in Australia and worked in clinical practice for the Royal Veterinary College, London, before completing a DPhil in Cancer Epidemiology at the University of Oxford. Since 2012 I have worked as an Epidemiologist with the Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit (MEIRU), based predominately in northern rural Malawi.
Affiliations
Teaching
I am a co-organiser for the 'Practical Epidemiology' distance learning module (EPM103) and also contribute to teaching on 'Study Design: writing a grant application' (EPM201).
Research
My work focuses on the epidemiology of emerging, long-term non-communicable diseases in low-income, sub-Saharan Africa, where there is a concurrent burden of long-term (treated) communicable diseases, notably HIV. In 2015, with support from a Wellcome clinical post-doctoral fellowship, I established community-level stroke surveillance in rural Malawi to quantify the population burden of incident stroke and to investigate important modifiable risk factors. In 2021, with support from a Wellcome clinical career development fellowship, I am extending surveillance activities to investigate the population burden of, and risk factors for, other important cardiovascular conditions in rural and urban populations in Malawi.
I collaborate with investigators from the ALPHA network of longitudinal population HIV studies in sub-Saharan Africa and I am a co-investigator on the Africa Non-communicable Diseases Longitudinal Data Alliance (ANDLA).
Selected Publications
