Celia Gregson is a Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and a NIHR Global Health Research Professor of Healthy Ageing in sub-Saharan Africa, leading the Global Health and Ageing Research Unit at the University of Bristol, UK and The Health Research Unit Zimbabwe (THRU-Zim) within the Biomedical Research and Training Institute (BRTI) in Harare. She is a Consultant Geriatrician at the Royal United Hospital in Bath.
Celia and colleagues founded the ‘Sub-Saharan African MuSculOskeletal Network’ (www.theSAMSON.org), which aims to build musculoskeletal research capacity across the region. Her research includes: (i) the IMVASK cohort study (The IMpact of Vertical HIV infection on child and Adolescent Skeletal development in Zimbabwe), a Wellcome funded collaboration with the LSHTM and BRTI; (ii) ‘VITamin D for AdoLescents with HIV to reduce musculoskeletal morbidity and ImmunopaThologY (VITALITY): a randomised trial’ in Zimbabwe and Zambia (EDCTP funded); (iii) Celia leads a Wellcome Collaborator Award - ‘Fractures in sub-Saharan Africa: Epidemiology, Economic impact and Ethnography’ (Fractures-E3), working with colleagues in The Gambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa; (iv) Celia is PI of a GCRF-funded study of musculoskeletal disease during menopausal transition in the context of HIV in Zimbabwe and South Africa. She chairs the UK National Osteoporosis Guideline Group.
