Dr. Iroh Tam heads the Paediatric and Child Health Research Group at the Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme (MLW), where she has been based full-time since 2016. She is a clinician-researcher who works as a consultant paediatrician in Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, the tertiary-level government referral hospital for the southern region of Malawi. Her research deals with respiratory tract infections and the intersection with diarrhoeal disease, common infectious conditions in the Malawi setting, antimicrobial resistance, sepsis, clinical trials and antimicrobial stewardship.