I trained in veterinary medicine in Australia and worked in clinical practice for the Royal Veterinary College, London, before completing a DPhil in Cancer Epidemiology at the University of Oxford. Since 2012 I have worked as an Epidemiologist with the Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit (MEIRU), based predominately in northern rural Malawi.
Affiliations
Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Teaching
I am a co-organiser for the 'Practical Epidemiology' distance learning module (EPM103) and also contribute to teaching on 'Study Design: writing a grant application' (EPM201).
Research
My work focuses on the epidemiology of emerging, long-term non-communicable diseases in low-income, sub-Saharan Africa, where there is a concurrent burden of long-term (treated) communicable diseases, notably HIV. In 2015, with support from a Wellcome clinical post-doctoral fellowship, I established community-level stroke surveillance in rural Malawi to quantify the population burden of incident stroke and to investigate important modifiable risk factors. In 2021, with support from a Wellcome clinical career development fellowship, I am extending surveillance activities to investigate the population burden of, and risk factors for, other important cardiovascular conditions in rural and urban populations in Malawi.
I collaborate with investigators from the ALPHA network of longitudinal population HIV studies in sub-Saharan Africa and I am a co-investigator on the Africa Non-communicable Diseases Longitudinal Data Alliance (ANDLA).
I collaborate with investigators from the ALPHA network of longitudinal population HIV studies in sub-Saharan Africa and I am a co-investigator on the Africa Non-communicable Diseases Longitudinal Data Alliance (ANDLA).
Selected Publications
2024
PLOS global public health
2024
PLOS global public health
2024
PLOS global public health
2024
Lancet (London, England)
2023
PLOS Global Public Health
2023
International journal of infectious diseases
2023
medRxiv
2023
medRxiv
2023
Nature
2023
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