Biography
Marah is a medical doctor and an emerging clinician-scientist in Immunology. She is a Rhodes Scholar, an Africa Oxford Initiative/Kennedy Trust Prize Student, and a 3rd-year DPhil candidate in Molecular and Cellular Medicine at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on understanding how immune cells behave in rheumatoid arthritis, with the aim of supporting the development of targeted therapies.
After completing her medical training in Malawi, she transitioned into a research career at the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme, where she led several COVID-19 projects during the pandemic. She later completed an MSc in Integrated Immunology at Oxford in 2022.
Marah is passionate about translating basic research into new therapeutics and health policies, with a particular focus on reducing the high disease burden across Africa by generating evidence-based and context-relevant data.