Dr. Malik is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Child Eye Health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Paediatric Ophthalmologist.

Dr. Malik is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Child Eye Health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Paediatric Ophthalmologist. Her research focusses on integrating eye care into child health programmes and policies in low resource settings using new technologies and health system approaches. She has extensive experience in clinical practice, teaching, training and research across Africa, Asia and South America. She has co-founded her own NGO, EyeSHA, focussed on improving child eye health and is a trustee and advisor on a number of other NGOs. She has previously had national roles with the Department of Health and continues to work with WHO and UNICEF on global policy.

She led the development of a model for integrating eye care into primary care including innovative low cost devices in Tanzania which resulted in national policy change. She is now co-leading a NIHR funded series of projects to evaluate a health systems approach to improving child eye health in Tanzania and Nepal. She is also leading the development of telemedicine and AI screening model for Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) in Nepal. Previously she led a ROP network across 6 countries in Africa and Asia and is setting up a further ROP telemedicine network to improve access to ROP care for every child in need.