Jennifer Brown

My research focuses on HIV with emphasis on HIV drug resistance, the rollout of new antiretrovirals, and paediatric HIV. After previously working on randomised clinical trials and cohorts in Lesotho and Tanzania, I am now turning towards causal inference from large observational datasets in South Africa and the UK. Specifically, I aim to compare various paediatric and adult first- and second-line treatments, different modalities for community treatment pick-up, as well as investigating cardiovascular disease in people with HIV.

I am currently dividing my time between the Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care (IRAC) group in Oxford and the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA). Before this, I was based in Switzerland working with the Division of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Basel, where I ran the GIVE MOVE trial assessing genotypic resistance testing to inform care for children and adolescents with failing antiretroviral therapy, the LoDoCA cohort on the rollout of paediatric dolutegravir, and assessed emerging dolutegravir resistance within the VICONEL cohort.

I am funded by a Postdoc.Mobility grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and have previously received funding from the University of Basel Research Fund and Fondation Botnar.

Previous Experience and Education

Since 04/2024 – Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford / CAPRISA

08/2022 - 03/2024 – Postdoc / Project Leader, University Hospital Basel

01/2022 - 07/2022 – Postdoctoral Scientific Collaborator, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

03/2018 - 12/2021 – PhD in Medical Biological Research, University of Basel

02/2017 - 11/2017 – Project Assistant Molecular HIV Diagnostics, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

09/2016 - 06/2019 – MAS in Development and Cooperation, ETH Zurich

09/2014 - 10/2016 – MSc in Biology (specialisation Cell Biology), ETH Zurich

09/2011 - 09/2014 – BSc in Biology, ETH Zurich