Professor Cally Tann

Cally is a South African-born, UK-trained neonatologist, and Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Honorary Principal Scientist at the MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit in Entebbe. Her research work focuses on global neonatal health and early childhood outcomes and interventions. She has a particular interest in perinatal brain health, neurodevelopmental outcomes, and early intervention for children with developmental disabilities, particularly in Africa.

She is the founder of the Baby Ubuntu programme, a participatory community-based parenting programme for young children less than 3 years of age with developmental disabilities in low resource settings. The Baby Ubuntu programme sits under the ‘Ubuntu- Hub’, a not-for-profit education and research hub at the International Centre for Evidence in Disability at LSHTM.