I am an epidemiologist whose main expertise is quantitative public health measurement and disease control in crisis (armed conflict, natural disaster, epidemic) settings. I have worked for Médecins Sans Frontières, the World Health Organization and as a consultant for a variety of other agencies. I have spent several years at the School (2004-2012, 2017-present), and in between led Save the Children UK's humanitarian health team.

I have mixed experience in research, policy formulation and operational programme delivery in difficult and insecure settings. By mixed I mean diverse...although come to think of it some of it is definitely mixed.

I haven't managed to settle on a specific topic, though I have done work on malaria, human African trypanosomiasis, tuberculosis, cholera, Ebola, acute malnutrition, vaccines, and COVID-19. I've also worked a fair bit on methods for surveillance, surveys and field epidemiology in general.

My views on and tentative proposals for the future of humanitarian health are in this inaugural lecture which they made me do: https://vimeo.com/237573508 . It's from 2017, but I'm not really sure anything has changed in the humanitarian system since then...if anyone knows of something that's actually improved, please write with URGENT in the subject matter.