I am a paediatrician and epidemiologist with more than 10 years of experience working in resources-constrain settings in South Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia and Guinea-Bissau among other countries, as a clinician and researcher, especially focused on malaria, HIV, vertical transmission of infectious diseases, epidemiology and new diagnostic tools of bacterial invasive diseases and pneumonia, antimicrobial resistance and child mortality.

For the last five years, I have been working as an overstaff at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine based in Eastern Ethiopia, leading a new research unit in collaboration with a local University called Haramaya University in a partnership called Hararghe Health Research Partnership. I have been the site director implementing research projects such as Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) and other projects in maternal and child health, combining scientific leadership roles with logistic and administrative responsibilities. I am now leading a new research area on micronutrient deficiencies and neural tube defects in Eastern Ethiopia, a condition found as a major cause of stillbirths and child death in CHAMPS-Ethiopia as well as other projects such as invasive bacterial diseases surveillance including prognosis biomarkers.