Selected achievements

Awards

2018  Claude Leon Merit Award for Early-Career Researchers

2016-2017  Africa Science Leadership Fellow, Future Africa

2014-2019  Elected Member, Global Young Academy

2014-2015  Sydney Brenner Fellow, Academy of Science of South Africa

2008-2012  UK Medical Research Council Career Development Fellow, National Institute of Medical Research

Grants and funding

2021 Research Support Grant, Australian Respiratory Council

2020-2021 Innovation Builder Fund, University of Cape Town

2020-2022 Global Health Trials Development Grant co-investigator, MRC NIHR DfID Wellcome

2015-2021 Tuberculosis Research Unit (TBRU) Consortium co-investigator, National Institute of Health (NIH)

2014-2021  South African Medical Research Council-Strategic Health Innovation Partnership (SHIP) - Tuberculosis Vaccine Development, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Service to the community

2021 Melbourne Tuberculosis Community, co-founding member

2021 Immunology Group of Victoria (IgV), committee member

2021 African BioImaging Consortium (ABIC), working group on education and awareness

2020-2021 Young Indigenous Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Academy (YIWSA), Mentor

2015-2018  Executive Committee, Global Young Academy