Thoko joined the ISPM team in 2018 to pursue a PhD, looking at the impact on viral load suppression in HIV patients in Malawi with the introduction of tenofovir/lamivudine/dolutegravir as the first-line treatment regimen. He is a medical doctor trained at the Malawi College of Medicine, with a Masters in Tropical and Infectious Diseases from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool. Since 2015 he has worked with the Department of HIV and AIDS in the Malawi Ministry of Health where he is the Deputy Director of the HIV program in Malawi. He focuses on monitoring and evaluation and development of HIV policies for biomedical interventions.