Alison Grant

Alison Grant is member of Faculty at Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) and a Professor of International Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She initially trained as a physician specialising in infectious and tropical diseases and HIV medicine, and continues to see patients at the Mortimer Market centre HIV clinic in London. Prof Grant also holds a PhD in epidemiology. Her main research interest is improving care for HIV-positive people in resource-limited settings, and preventing tuberculosis (TB). Since 1997, Prof Grant’s research has primarily been based in South Africa where her work has focussed on the development and evaluation of interventions to reduce HIV-related illness and death, and particularly HIV-related TB. Major projects she has led and collaborated on include a programme of work taking a whole systems approach to TB infection prevention and control in primary healthcare clinics; a study investigating TB transmission from people with subclinical TB; and a cluster-randomised trial investigating a point-of-care TB test and treat algorithm for people with advanced HIV disease.