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Amaya trained in paediatrics and infectious diseases in the US and started working on helminthic infections, and their impact on child health in Coastal Kenya in 2009. She is foremost a field clinical epidemiologist and has investigated a broad range of disease manifestations in children and young women related to neglected tropical parasitic diseases (NTD), namely schistosomiasis and giardiasis. Other work has included profiling pro-inflammatory cytokines in schistosomiasis and drug (praziquantel) efficacy PK/PD studies in young children in Uganda and PK modelling in pregnant women with schistosomiasis in the Philippines. She is interested in community-based diagnosis of female genital schistosomiasis, validating diagnostic tools at the point-of-care and its integrations with cervical cancer, STIs and HIV diagnosis and access to care. Amaya heads the Schistosomiasis Clinical Research Group at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and works as a paediatric infectious diseases consultant in the UK National Health Service. She leads on field related studies in Uganda, Malawi and Zambia.