Yagespari Singh is a co-investigator and project manager on the Mphatlalatsane Evaluation, a maternal and newborn health, implementation science and mixed methods study.  Her involvement in research over the last 14 years  has been in Maternal and  Health and Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission studies.  Her research experience is on quality management with focus on data management. Other operational interests are the use of mobile technology for data collection and monitoring tool which has been used in various studies that she was involved in. She has a Masters in Public Health and is based in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.