Tamsin Phillips, PhD
HIGH IRI Fellow | University of Cape Town
Tamsin Phillips, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health & Family Medicine. Dr. Phillips received her doctorate in Public Health from the University of Cape Town in 2019 and was a 2020 Fogarty Global Health Postdoctoral Fellow through the VECD (Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke) consortium.
Dr. Phillips’ broad career goal is to generate high-quality evidence on implementable strategies to support lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) for people living with HIV in low-resource settings. Her work to date has focused on ART adherence and retention among pregnant and postpartum women, specifically understanding and supporting long-term engagement in care after delivery. She is currently principle investigator of a CIPHER/IAS grant that aims to use routinely available electronic medical record data to prospectively identify mother-infant pairs with gaps in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV services and facilitate linkage back to care. She has almost 10 years experience working in HIV research in South Africa, including studies of mobile health and HIV service delivery interventions. Dr. Phillips is particularly interested in incorporating patient preferences and choice into the design and implementation of interventions to support lifelong HIV care.