Dr Fiona Fleming
Director of Research & Innovation

Fiona is an epidemiologist with a strong background in the control of infectious diseases. With over 16 years’ experience of working in Africa, she has been with SCI since 2005 facilitating the delivery of millions of treatments. Prior to her time with Unlimit Health, Fiona lived and worked in Uganda for four years managing a Community Resource Programme for Restless Development, which focused on bottom-up sustainable health and agricultural activities in rural populations. Fiona leads on directing the design, planning and implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities across all Unlimit Health programme areas. This involves monitoring programme impact, process, and performance, in addition to economic and social impacts, to ensure that the organisation’s objectives are achieved. She is also involved in multi-disciplinary operational research on identifying the cost-effectiveness, accessibility and acceptability of current NTD control programmes in Africa.

Fiona’s latest research publication: Zoerhoff KL, Mbabazi PS, Gass K, et al. How well do coverage surveys and programmatically reported mass drug administration coverage match? Results from 214 mass drug administration campaigns in 15 countries, 2008-2017. BMJ Glob Health. 2023;8(5):e011193. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2022-011193 https://gh.bmj.com/content/8/5/e011193