Professor Ferrand is a clinical epidemiologist 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 doctoral research conducted investigated the clinical epidemiology of HIV in adolescents. She has been based in Zimbabwe for the past 21 years, Prof. Ferrand’s research focuses on adolescent health, with a focus on HIV and sexual and reproductive health (SRH), developing and evaluating interventions to improve outcomes across the HIV care cascade and for integrated delivery of HIV and SRH services. She also works on HIV-associated comorbidities in children and adolescents with perinatally-acquired HIV, with studies to investigate the clinical manifestations and pathogenesis of heart, lung, musculoskeletal and neurocognitive disease. She conducts clinical trials of interventions to address these morbidities.
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.
