Moffat Nyirenda, MBBS, PhD, is a diabetologist and endocrinologist with over 20 years of research experience. His research focuses on understanding how environmental factors in early life, including undernutrition, influence the risk and manifestation of non-communicable diseases (NCD). He is the unit director and leads the NCD research theme at the Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit in Entebbe, where they have established a world-class diabetes laboratory with the ability to perform most tests to international standards and to derive local reference ranges. Nyirenda is a co-investigator on several child health and NCD-focused projects, including the OMWaNA study, the CHANGE project (Child Malnutrition and Adult NCD: Generating Evidence on Mechanistic Links to Inform Future Policy/Practice), the Healthy Lives-Malawi: Intergenerational Cohort of Chronic Conditions longitudinal population study and the DIDIDA consortium (Digital Innovations and Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases in Africa).