About Me
I am faculty in the Global WACh Center in the Department of Global Health and have been working in Kenya for 14 years. My interests within global health include pediatric HIV, implementation science, and operations research. I have been involved in a series of studies that range from incentive trials to pediatric HIV diagnostic testing to adolescent HIV to PrEP in pregnancy. I am passionate about working in collaboration with ministries of health to identify health system research priorities and address relevant questions with implementation science. I serve as Director of the Global WACh Certificate Program, Co-Director of Implementation Science in Global WACh, Co-Lead of the Working in Implementation Science (WISE) group, core faculty on implementation science hubs, and as a Center Co-Director for Global WACh.
I am currently the PI of an R01 and previously a K01 focused on testing implementation strategies to improve delivery of PrEP for pregnant and postpartum women in Kenya, as well as a CFAR international pilot award focused on engaging diverse adolescents in research using respondent driven sampling and virtual focus groups in WhatsApp. I have been a co-investigator on projects focusing on optimizing pediatric HIV testing, treatment, and care using systems engineering tools in Kenya; assessing causes of mortality for adolescents living with HIV in Kenya; integrating mental health and HIV care in Kenya; assessing the impact of HIV exposure on children; and integrating point-of-care viral load testing in both Kenya and the US.