Dermot Maher

Dr Maher is a physician who trained in medicine in the United Kingdom at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, with subsequent postgraduate training in family medicine, internal medicine and infectious diseases. His professional qualifications are in family medicine (MRCGP), general medicine (FRCP) and public health (FFPH), and he has a doctorate in public health (DM Oxford). He joined TDR in 2014 as Coordinator, Research Capacity Strengthening, following work as a specialist physician in Malawi (1992-1995), a TB medical officer with WHO in Geneva (1995-2007), head of a programme of HIV research in Uganda with the Medical Research Council (UK) and Uganda Virus Research Institute (2007-2011), Senior TB Advisor with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Geneva (2011-2012) and International Portfolio Manager at the Wellcome Trust in London (2012-2014). He has broad experience in research in developing countries, particularly in TB, HIV and non-communicable diseases. His research expertise is in the following areas: clinical research, operational and implementation research, epidemiology, research methodology, health systems research (particularly the links between research and policy) and ethics.