Dr. Nuala McGrath is Professor of Epidemiology and Sexual Health, and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Global Health Professor, University of Southampton, UK; Honorary Professor at the School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Dr. McGrath has more than 30 years of experience in HIV surveillance, treatment and prevention studies, and intervention trials in sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr. McGrath received her undergraduate degree in Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research (University of Exeter, UK); a Master’s in Biometry (University of Reading, UK); and a Doctorate in Infectious Disease Epidemiology (Harvard School of Public Health, USA). She was a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow (2008-2015), has lived in the USA, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, and South Africa, and has previously held honorary appointments with the HIV/AIDS, STIs and TB research program, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa (2007-2010), and the Research Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London, UK (2014-2017).

Dr. McGrath has served on Steering Committees and Independent Data and Safety Monitoring Boards for NIMH, NIHR, and ANRS funded multi-site HIV studies and clinical trials. She has also served on fellowship panels for the Wellcome Trust, the African Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Society. Since 2017, Dr. McGrath has been a UK Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner and Lead Commissioner for Equity and Access.