I am a medical doctor, epidemiologist and public health practitioner with extensive experience over 25 years in Asian and African countries, including India, Pakistan, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Nigeria. I offer a broad base of expertise in several complementary areas of research and postgraduate teaching, including mother and child health (MCH) and health system research, especially improving service delivery in low- and middle-income countries
Affiliations
Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Teaching
-Departmental Research Degree Coordinator
- Co-Programme director for DL Epidemiology-
- Module Co-organiser for Social Epidemiology
- Regularly delivers lectures and conducts tutorials
- Personal tutor to students in MSc Global Mental Health.
- Supervising MSc student projects.
- On the examination board for Public Health for Development.
- Co-Programme director for DL Epidemiology-
- Module Co-organiser for Social Epidemiology
- Regularly delivers lectures and conducts tutorials
- Personal tutor to students in MSc Global Mental Health.
- Supervising MSc student projects.
- On the examination board for Public Health for Development.
Research
The focus of my research has been implementation science and operational research: and I am particularly interested in developing and evaluating health system interventions to provide quality of care evidence for research-based decisions underpinning maternal and child health policies and services.
Research Area
Child health
Complex interventions
Evaluation
Health services
Health workers
Impact evaluation
Maternal health
Epidemiology
Operational research
Psychology
Implementation science
Disease and Health Conditions
Disability
Malnutrition
Mental health
Sepsis
Infectious diseases
Country
Ethiopia
India
Nigeria
Pakistan
Region
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
Selected Publications
Maternal time investment in caregiving activities to promote early childhood development: evidence from rural India.
2023
Frontiers in pediatrics
Promoting Supportive and Respectful Maternity Care in Public Health Facilities in Sindh, Pakistan: A Theory-Informed Health System Intervention.
2023
Global health, science and practice
Applying the COM-B Model to Understand the Drivers of Mistreatment During Childbirth: A Qualitative Enquiry Among Maternity Care Staff.
2023
Global health, science and practice
Socioeconomic inequity in coverage and quality of maternal postnatal care in Ethiopia.
2022
Tropical medicine & international health