I joined the School in 2021 as to lead the Secretariat for the Research Consortium for School Health & Nutrition. I bring a decade of experience working across the health and education sectors to improve the wellbeing of school children.

Prior to joining LSHTM, I worked with the World Bank in Washington, DC (2013-2021) where I focused on controlling neglected tropical diseases in the Africa region and strengthening cross-sector investments targeted to children as they mature. During my tenure, I supported the fiscal management of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) and quadrupled the World Bank’s annual investments for neglected tropical diseases over a five-year period. I also managed a multimillion-dollar trust fund from the Global Partnership for Education to pilot coordinated delivery of school-based health and nutrition interventions. Building on this experience, I worked with the Global Financing Facility to strengthen the evidence around improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health, including through school-based interventions.

 
I coordinated the third edition of the World Bank’s Disease Control Priorities Child and Adolescent Health and Development Volume, which consolidates the evidence for investing across the first 21 years of life. This volume has been re-printed twice with the World Food Programme and with the Global Partnership for Education.

I have consulted for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Child Health Task Force, Partnership for Child Development, the World Health Organization, and the United States Agency for International Development, among other institutions.