I am a Clinical PhD Fellow in Global Health funding by the Wellcome Trust at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Public Health Specialty Registrar.

My research is currenlty focussed on Streptococcus pyogenes (Strep A) epidemiology in The Gambia.

Specifically, my work and interets include:

1. Determining Strep A carriange and infection disease burden and establishing disease surveillance in low-resource settings,

2. Investigating household and community transmission and risk factors for Strep A disease,

3. Immune responses to natural Strep A infection in high-Rheumatic Heart Disease burden settings,

4. Improving Strep A diagnostics in LMIC,

5. Primordial and primary prevention of Rheumatic Heart Disease through targetting Strep A skin infections.