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I am a Clinical Professor, specialising in newborn health and early childhood development and disability, working at LSHTM and the MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit in Entebbe. I am a South Africa-born, UK-trained paediatrician and hold posts as a Consultant Neonatologist at University College London Hospitals NHS Trust and Academic Training Programme Director for paediatrics at NHS England. My research focuses on the risks and impacts of common newborn conditions on the developing brain, and how best to support children with developmental disabilities and their families, particularly in Africa. I am a co-founder of Baby Ubuntu, a participatory group programme co-designed with expert parents to promote participation and inclusion for children with developmental disabilities and their families, aiming to develop strategies to promote caregiver skills and agency. 

I provide technical expertise to the World Health Organization on early interventions for children with developmental disabilities and to the Gates Foundation on the development of early intervention strategies for newborn brain injury.  I lecture on topics related to international newborn and child health and work closely with the MARCH Centre and the International Centre for Evidence in Disability at LSHTM. 

I completed my medical training at the University of Birmingham and my paediatric training in London and Australia. I gained a MSc at LSHTM in 2003, and went on to complete a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship with my PhD research focusing on the role of perinatal infection on newborn brain injury in Uganda. My postdoctoral research focused on the development, implementation and evaluation of early intervention strategies for young children with developmental disabilties, kangaroo mother care to improve outcomes after preterm birth in LMIC, global landscaping of neonatal Group B Streptococcal infection, and process and impact analysis of a portfolio of early child development interventions.