She is a clinician trained at the University of Milan, and based in Uganda since 2002; she started working at IDI in 2004 as a senior medical officer and contributed to best practices in the scale up of ART in Uganda

She is the current Head of Research at IDI and the Head of capacity building supervising several scholars from Makerere University and international collaborating institutions. She is the recipient of a senior fellowship from EDCTP on HIV, NCD and aging.