Dr Gillian Levine is an epidemiologist and a Basel Research Centre for Child Health Postdoctoral Excellence Programme Fellow at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH). Her research focuses on clinical epidemiology and newborn and young child health and survival in low-resource settings and also on the development and testing of interventions to improve healthcare quality and appropriate antibiotic use for infants and young children. She is currently working on projects to develop and test novel electronic clinical decision support tools to improve the implementation of evidence-based medical care for young infants. Dr Levine has a master’s in public health from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Washington, USA.