Rashida Ferrand Professor Ferrand is a clinical epidemiologist and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in Clinical Science at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). After obtaining her medical degree from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, she completed postgraduate training in internal medicine and clinical specialist training in HIV Medicine and Sexual Health in London. Her PhD in epidemiology is from LSHTM. Based in Zimbabwe for the past 19 years, Prof. Ferrand directs a research programme on adolescent health, with a focus on HIV and sexual and reproductive health (SRH), including interventions to improve outcomes across the HIV care cascade and integrate delivery of HIV and SRH services. She studies the clinical epidemiology of HIV-associated comorbidities in children and adolescents with perinatally-acquired HIV, leads observational studies to investigate clinical manifestations and pathogenesis of comorbidities (lung, cardiac, and musculoskeletal disease), and conducts clinical trials of interventions to address these morbidities. She trains young people as researchers and in delivery of health interventions. In Harare, she is hosted by the Biomedical Research and Training Institute (BRTI). Professor Ferrand is also a visiting professor at the Department of Paediatrics at the Aga Khan University, Pakistan.