Jainaba is from Birmingham and completed her BSc and MSc at the University of Wolverhampton. She moved to The Gambia to work at the MRC Gambia site before joining the Grainger Lab on a 3-year PhD programme. She has interests in the molecular mechanisms of virulence and pathogenesis of enteropathogens and was funded by the Islamic Development Bank’s Merit Scheme. After graduating, Jai worked as a research molecular biologist at Biofidelity Ltd.