Biography

My driving interest lies in stemming the spread of preventable disease through improved healthcare delivery and direct patient care. To academically prepare myself for this daunting task I am pairing an American M.D. with a Cambridge PhD in Public Health and Epidemiology, enabling me to understand both the clinical and theoretical aspects of my future work. As part of my PhD, I am working to define the burden of cardiometabolic disease in sub-Saharan Africa and explore possible associations between HIV, ART, and cardiometabolic risk factors in the region. This work took me to Blantyre, Malawi, where I lived for the first year of my PhD designing and implementing a population based cohort study in collaboration with the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust. I have since returned to Cambridge to continue analysis of my data and look towards writing up my dissertation.