Clinicn Investigator, Asst Prf Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Mass General Research Institute

Assistant Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School

Associate Physician Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital

MD Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons 2008

MSc 2021

antibodies; antimicrobial resistance; clinical quality improvement; fetal immunity; global health; hiv infection; hiv infections; hiv-1; infectious diseases; malaria; maternal sepsis; maternal-child health; neonatal microbiome; placenta; pregnancy-related bacterial infections; resource limited settings; risk factors I am a cross-disciplinary researcher trained in infectious diseases and critical care medicine. My current research focuses on infections in pregnancy and the role of the placenta in fetal and child health outcomes. Currently, I am researching the impact of maternal HIV infection on the placenta and transplacental antibody transfer in Uganda, antimicrobial resistance among pregnant and peripartum women and their babies, and the effect of antibiotics on maternal and neonatal microbiomes. Broadly, I am interested determining risk factors for poor child health outcomes in HIV-exposed, uninfected children, flashpoints for the development of antimicrobial resistance, and microbiome development and perturbations in resource-limited settings and the impact of HIV infection on each of these research areas.