Dr Palwasha Khan
Palwasha Khan is a clinical associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and is seconded to the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) to head the Health Informatics section of the data science unit. Her research interests include better understanding the drivers of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission at a population-level in high burden settings by using an array of cross-disciplinary approaches. Her research focus is centred on how best to inform the targeting of TB care and prevention strategies specific to the local epidemiological and societal context by integrating health systems, biological, clinical and social data with the dynamic historical and ecological experiences of the populations affected.
