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).