Rashida Abbas Ferrand is a British physician and epidemiologist who is a professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her research considers adolescent health and the development of interventions to improve outcomes for people living with HIV. She was awarded the 2018 Chalmers Medal, and elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2024.

Ferrand studied medicine at Newcastle University. She specialised in internal medicine, and completed her specialist training in HIV/AIDS in London.^{[citation needed]} Ferrand earned a master's degree in epidemiology at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her doctoral research, which was supported by the Wellcome Trust, investigated HIV-associated morbidity in Zimbabwean adolescents.^[1] She was supported by two Wellcome Trust fellowships to identify strategies to improve the outcomes of people living with HIV.^[2][3]

Ferrand has dedicated her career to the epidemiology of adolescent health and sexual and reproductive health at Southern Africa. She develops public health interventions, including evaluating the impact of a psychosocial nutritional care package for pregnant adolescents.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, Ferrand moved to Harare,^[4] where she works on public health interventions relevant to people in Zimbabwe.^[5] In 2012, she established the Zimbabwe LSHTM Research Partnership, which studied HIV prevention and care, as well as the long-term complications of HIV.^[4] In 2022, she renamed the partnership The Health Research Unit Zimbabwe ('THRU ZIM'), which is a multi-disciplinary research programme that focusses on equitable partnerships and initiatives that strengthen the Zimbabwean research capacity.^[6] She has studied the clinical manifestations and pathogenesis of children and adolescents with perinatally-acquired HIV.^[7][8] In 2018 Ferrand was awarded the Chalmers Medal.^{[citation needed]}

Ferrand is the director of the CREATE PhD programme, a scheme which trains future global health researchers.^[9]

• 2014 Wellcome Trust International Engagement^[10]
• 2018 Chalmers Medal^[11]
• 2019 Wellcome Trust Research Enrichment^[12]
• 2024 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences^[13]

• Elizabeth D Lowenthal; Sabrina Bakeera-Kitaka; Tafireyi Marukutira; Jennifer Chapman; Kathryn Goldrath; Rashida A Ferrand (July 2014). "Perinatally acquired HIV infection in adolescents from sub-Saharan Africa: a review of emerging challenges". Lancet Infectious Diseases. 14 (7): 627–39. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70363-3. ISSN 1473-3099. PMC 4074242. PMID 24406145. Wikidata Q27022471.
• Najmul Haider; Abdinasir Yusuf Osman; Audrey Gadzekpo; et al. (1 October 2020). "Lockdown measures in response to COVID-19 in nine sub-Saharan African countries". BMJ Global Health. 5 (10). doi:10.1136/BMJGH-2020-003319. ISSN 2059-7908. PMID 33028699. Wikidata Q100490377.
• Rashida A Ferrand; Elizabeth L Corbett; Robin Wood; John Hargrove; Chiratidzo E Ndhlovu; Frances M Cowan; Eleanor Gouws; Brian G Williams (1 September 2009). "AIDS among older children and adolescents in Southern Africa: projecting the time course and magnitude of the epidemic". AIDS. 23 (15): 2039–2046. doi:10.1097/QAD.0B013E32833016CE. ISSN 0269-9370. PMC 3408596. PMID 19684508. Wikidata Q36128518.