Florence joined CISL in 2021 as the Prince of Wales Fellow in Public Health Nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa supported by Brighter Living Foundation. She has a PhD in Biological Science from the University of Cambridge. She was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to conduct her PhD at MRC Human Nutrition Research (Nutrition and Bone Health Group, led by Prof. Ann Prentice). She also has a BSc in Food Science and Technology and MSc in Applied Human Nutrition from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. After her PhD, Florence was employed as an Investigator Scientist in Prof. Prentice’s Group for two years. Her PhD and postdoctoral research focused on the influence of diet, nutrition and HIV status during pregnancy and lactation on bone health in African women and their children, with the aim of understanding the need for maternal calcium and vitamin D supplementation in the context of HIV.
Prior to her PhD, Florence undertook work in management and prevention of acute malnutrition among children and adults, design and implementation of nutrition programmes through a health systems strengthening approach, capacity building for health workers, and technical assistance to health facilities, districts, and local governments in Uganda. She previously worked for Baylor-Uganda, where she designed and implemented a pioneering programme integrating nutrition and food security services into HIV/AIDS services at over 300 health facilities in 25 districts.
