Angela Maphula Is a qualified Clinical Psychologist registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. Her primary work involves teaching and supervision of postgraduate students in the field of psychology. She has served as a supervisor to Cognitive testing team - Mal-ED project from 2012 to date for the South African site funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Maphula has been recognized every year by the University of Venda as an active researcher. As a fellow on the WHIL Innovations Fogarty D43 training grant, she completed her PhD studies with a research focus on the influence of caregiving on child development, with the main aim to develop a model to assist rural mothers with a set of activities to enhance child’s cognitive, language, motor and socio emotional development. She completed this work with PhD thesis advisors Dr. Pascal Bessong (key contributor for this research grant) and Dr. Rebecca Scharf (co-PI on this project). She was also part of The VHEMBE Study – CERCH supervising researchers who were conducting neuro-assessments.