Dr Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi is a Principal Research Associate (Professor equivalent) at the University of Cambridge UK, as well as holding a joint appointment as the Head of Research and Development at The Ugandan Academy for Health Innovations, based at Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Uganda.

She is a clinically trained academic who has worked in Uganda since performing a PhD on Cryptococcal Meningitis in PLHIV in 2004-9. Her research interests include technologies for health systems strengthening for HIV and sexually transmitted infections.

She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Faculty of Public Health of London, UK.