Dr Modou Jobe is a cardiologist and epidemiologist at the MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he joined in 2014. He currently leads the nutrition-related chronic diseases (NRCD) research within the Nutrition and Planetary Health Theme.

Dr Jobe graduated with a MB ChB (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) degree from the School of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of The Gambia in 2009. Subsequently, he went on to obtain a Diplôme d’Études Spécialisées (DES) de Cardiologie (Postgraduate Specialist Diploma in Cardiology) at Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal. He has also obtained an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

His research focuses on the epidemiology and mechanisms of nutrition-related chronic diseases in sub-Saharan Africa and aims to better understand and manage these disease processes through patient-oriented and translational research. He currently leads on several research projects in The Gambia through which he seeks to describe modifiable barriers to diagnosis and treatment of hypertension, investigate its aetiological drivers and mechanisms, validate novel artificial intelligence-enabled ECG to screen for cardiac contractile dysfunction in low resource settings, determining the optimal diagnostic and risk stratification approaches for people with hypertension in rural SSA.