Ashley Murray
MBBCh (Wits), MSc
DPhil Candidate
Ashley is a South African medical doctor and current DPhil student supervised by Prof Richard Stevens, Dr Thomas Fanshawe and Dr Jienchi Dorward.
Ashley earned a Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery (MBBCh) with distinction at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2016. She was awarded the Dennis Goldstein Memorial Prize in Family Medicine and the Smith and Nephew Prize in Orthopaedic Surgery. She has worked as a research clinician at the Perinatal HIV Research Unit at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto, South Africa, with subsequent research expertise in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19, HIV and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
Ashley also holds an MSc in Applied Digital Health from the University of Oxford supported by the Africa-Oxford Initiative and Skye Foundation, where she graduated with distinction and top of the class, receiving the inaugural Eddleston Award. She is passionate about improving care for underserved populations, a commitment that is central to her DPhil research. Her current research builds upon her expertise in HIV and digital health as she aims to develop and validate clinical risk prediction models for cardiovascular disease in people living with HIV. Her goal is to use big data in order to identify risk factors and develop context-appropriate scores that will enable healthcare workers to manage high-risk patients.