Personal Statement
I am a clinical researcher with a focus on viral hepatitis and HIV in Africa. I worked in Blantyre, Malawi at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme between 2017-2019 as part of a Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Fellowship, studying the epidemiology of hepatitis B and C and opportunities for a viral hepatitis treatment programme.

I trained in Edinburgh and Cambridge, and have previously worked as a medical officer in rural Kenya. I was an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow between 2013-15 studying HIV and hepatitis B co-infection in Ghana, and from 2015-2019 I was a Wellcome Clinical PhD Fellow in Liverpool and Malawi.

My interests are in epidemiology, virology and implementation research. My research focus is on ending viral hepatitis as a public health threat in Africa, with a particular focus on Malawi.

Research Overview
I am interested in the effectiveness of the hepatitis B vaccine in African populations, the opportunity to implement additional measures to prevent mother to child transmission. My research tackles ways to reduce the disease burden through provision of effective and timely antiviral treatment for hepatitis B, where there is currently a huge unmet need.

I am a founder member of the HEPSANET group (Hepatitis B in Africa Collaborative Research Network). Details of the network can be found here: www.hepsanet.org.