Professor Moffat Nyirenda

Diabetologist/Endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine (Global Non-Communicable Diseases) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Deputy Director and NCD Research Theme Leader at MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit. Previous positions include Professor of Research and Associate Director of Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme (University of Malawi) and Director of Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit. Research interests lie in mechanistic understanding of the aetiology of NCDs, including i) investigating the association between early environmental insults and the risk of obesity, diabetes and hypertension in adulthood; ii) using cross-cutting approaches to examine the interactions between infection and NCDs.