Dr. Akanksha Mimi Malhotra is an academic respiratory and general medicine doctor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and The Health Research Unit Zimbabwe. Her interests lie in mycobacterial disease (TB and nontuberculous mycobacteria), health inequities, and integrated health policy.

 

In October 2024, Mimi was awarded a Wellcome-funded Clinical PhD Fellowship in Health Priorities for the Global South at LSTM. Her PhD, the DUST study, aims to Determine the Lung health impact of Silica Dust and tuberculosis among artisanal and small-scale miners in Zimbabwe.

 

Through this research, she is also investigating the role of Computer-Aided Detection in TB diagnosis, evaluating treatment outcomes, and examining how post-TB lung disease affects this marginalised group.

 

 

Before joining LSTM, Mimi completed an Academic Clinical Fellowship at University College London. She holds an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and has experience working as part of the National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow Scheme at The Health Foundation, a UK-based health policy think tank. Mimi is a longstanding member of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Respiratory Section and has previously served as an expert member of the London Bridge Research Ethics Committee.