I joined the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Vaccines & Immunisation (a collaborative research group involving UKHSA and LSHTM) in 2022 as a Research Fellow and then became Assistant Professor. I am developing research projects around vaccination delivery, programmes, and engagement in the UK. My expertise lies in critiquing religious engagement with global public health technologies, philosophies and policies. My recent work challenges public health dogma by illustrating that low vaccination uptake among religious minorities is less an issue of ‘beliefs’ than engagement with globalised discourse on vaccine safety and the political economy of healthcare. My research has had wider impact following the COVID-19 pandemic and transnational spread of poliovirus, and in 2022 I was invited to lead qualitative evaluations of public health responses in Rockland County, New York (CDC) and in London (UKHSA).

Prior to joining LSHTM, I was Vice Chancellor's Fellow at Bristol University, where I was examining how sexuality education is raising claims of a clash between different rights and ideas of health protection (e.g. sexual and reproductive rights, religious rights, parental rights, and rights to knowledge). This issue has become increasingly apparent amidst proposed changes to the teaching of sexual and relationships education (RSE), and I have an interest in understanding how new requirements around the teaching of RSE is being navigated among self-protective religious minority groups in Britain.