She has been involved in various HIV-prevention studies throughout Africa, Asia and South America for over fifteen years, including research on adolescent behavior in South Africa, married men’s behavior in India, and pre-exposure prophylaxis among men who have sex with men in Brazil. For the past six years she has been working primarily in Kenya, where she completed an operational assessment of a small clinic in an informal urban settlement in Nairobi and established an educational exchange program for clinical residents at a hospital in Naivasha. She currently lives in Nairobi, where she conducts studies on HIV, viral hepatitis and barriers to care among people who inject drugs (PWID).