Sunil joined the board of ViviendasLeon while on faculty at the University of California, San Francisco He received his M.D. from John Hopkins University School of Medicine and his M.P.H. in epidemiology from the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been working on studies of malaria and tropical infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa for over 10 years and currently has active projects in Uganda, Burkina Faso, and Nigeria. He also serves of a non-profit working to prevent strokes in Africa.