I am a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) with an interest in Paediatrics, HIV and Neuroscience. I am conducting my PhD in South Africa examining the effects of HIV and antiretroviral therapy exposure in uninfected children born to HIV-infected mothers. My research aims to understand the impact of in utero and early life exposures on long-term health outcomes.

I have a Masters in Tropical Medicine and International Health and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene from LSHTM and work in the UK and South Africa. Prior to my PhD I worked on a joint project with LSHTM and the WHO on the dual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis initiative and developed an online dashboard to monitor progress towards this goal. While at the International Diagnosics Centre, LSHTM, I was the co-ordinator of the Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV (EID) Consortium (http://eidconsortium.org) which brings together principal investigators and partners working in the field of early infant diagnosis and point-of-care. More recently I have also worked for Médecins Sans Frontières in Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa in the field of maternal and paediatric HIV.