As a medical doctor with an interest in infectious diseases I have had clinical experience in the UK, New Zealand and Panama. Prior to this role I was working on Phase III COVID-19 vaccine and treatment trials at St Thomas’ Hospital, following my time there as an infectious diseases and microbiology registrar. As a clinical research fellow with the Draper Group, I have been working on blood-stage malaria vaccine trials and human challenge studies in the UK and with our partner sites across Africa, ranging from setting up first-in-human studies in Oxford to our group’s first Phase IIb efficacy study in Burkina Faso.