I trained as a medical doctor at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. I specialized in nephrology at the height of the HIV epidemic, when we had no access to ART, and my research focused on HIV-associated kidney disease. Thereafter, my focus shifted to understanding the epidemiology of kidney disease in African populations, working with multiple collaborators in Africa (the ARK Consortium, and AWI-Gen) and internationally (LSHTM, University of Pennsylvania, and Tufts University (USA)).