Natasha Fothergill-Misbah

Dr Natasha Fothergill-Misbah is a postdoctoral researcher in the Population Health Sciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University, United Kingdom. She has a multidisciplinary background in biomedical sciences, anthropology and global public health. Tash is Principal Investigator on multiple projects co-producing community-based approaches to tackling neurological disorders in Kenya. She is Co-Investigator on work investigating the clinical progression and genetic architecture of an African Parkinson’s cohort (TraPCAf) through the Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program (GP2). Her research primarily uses qualitative methods, and increasingly participatory and creative approaches, to understand the experiences of ageing in Africa, and of living with Parkinson’s disease in Africa. Tash consults for the World Health Organization, is involved in global Parkinson’s advocacy and is an award-winning documentary film producer of ‘Uhuru’ and ‘Shaking hands with the devil’. H