Aoife is an epidemiologist specialising in intervention and programme evaluation, and the improvement of adolescent health and well-being. In 2021, Aoife was awarded a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of Y-Check, a novel adolescent health and wellbeing check-up visit intervention in Zimbabwe. 

Aoife joined LSHTM in 2004 to lead the long-term impact evaluation of the MEMA kwa Vijana Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Intervention in Mwanza, Tanzania, and completed her PhD on this topic in 2010. Between 2010 and 2015 she held a MRC Population Health Scientist Post-doctoral Fellowship. Prior to joining LSHTM Aoife spent two years at the University of Aberdeen and two years as an EPIET fellow, based at Institut de Vielle Sanitaire, Paris where she contributed to infectious disease surveillance and participated in both national and international outbreak investigations. Between 2021 and 2023 Aoife was based full-time at The Health Research Unit (THRU ZIM) at Biomedical Research and Training Institute in Zimbabwe. She has also lived and worked for two years in Mwanza, Tanzania (2007-8) and has experience working in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Sudan.

Aoife is Adolescent theme co-lead in the Centre for Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive, and Child Health (MARCH) and co-lead for the Quantifying Impact theme in the Centre for Evaluation. She is passionate about engaging young people in research and in building the capacity of young researchers, and currently supervises MSc and PhD students in the UK, Zimbabwe and South Africa.