Jermaine is a Friendship Bench Research Co-ordinator and Senior Lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe. He is a physiotherapist with special interests in digital mental health, patient-reported outcomes and activity-based mental health interventions. Jermaine's research is in gathering formative data in building a case for both digital and physical-activity based interventions in low-resourced settings. He co-ordinates Friendship Bench research activities, including protocols review, training research assistants, data cleaning, analysis and dissemination. Lastly, his work also largely focuses on the translation, adaptation and validation of patient reported outcome measures in low-resource settings.