Natasha Lalloo

Research Clinician

Natasha Lalloo is a medical doctor from South Africa, passionate about public health and intersectional environmentalism, with particular interest in planetary health and climate change. She has a master of science in public health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and has experience working in urban, rural, public and private hospital settings in South Africa, as well as experience working on clinical trials and internationally funded public health and environmental health projects. She has a wide array of professional skills and experience including statistics (coding and analysis in Stata and R), epidemiology (including environmental epidemiology), policy (briefs, reports, analysis), intervention monitoring and evaluation, designing research studies and grant proposals, GIS skills, and quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.

She is currently serving as a research clinician at Wits Planetary Health Research. Her primary focus is the HarmonAize project, working on data synchronisation acrosss multiple studies in Africa to answer climate and health questions.

Spending much of her free time outdoors, Natasha’s deep connection with nature inspired her environmentalism and transition from clinical medicine to planetary health. She hikes, surfs, forages for mushrooms, scuba dives, goes birding and invasives hacking, and dabbles in gardening. She also loves reading, crosswords, complex boardgames, and cooking, plays acoustic guitar, and lifts heavy weights at the gym.