Helen is the Head of Clinical Research at KWTRP. She is a Consultant Paediatrician and Physician Scientist with over two decades of clinical research experience across sub-Saharan Africa and the United Kingdom. Helen is an awardee of the prestigious UK Medical Research Council (MRC)/Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office African Research Leader award (2020). Her research focuses on evaluating interventions to improve growth and neurodevelopmental outcomes among small vulnerable newborns in impoverished communities in sub-Saharan Africa. This involves co-designing and testing innovative strategies that integrate early child nutrition with maternal well-being — both among those hospitalised and post-discharge — to reduce morbidity and mortality among these at-risk infants.