I am a clinical academic and a medical doctor by training. Previously, I worked in the National Health Service (NHS), as a Health Adviser at the then UK Department for International Development (DFID) from 2018-19, and with the National Infection Service at Public Health England (PHE) on the UK COVID-19 response in 2020-21. Before qualifying in medicine, I worked in policy analysis for RAND Europe, the Institute for Government, and the Nuffield Trust.
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My work spans communicable disease epidemiology, health services research, and health policy and systems research. I use mixed-methods approaches drawing mainly on systems thinking.
I have two main areas of research interest:
1. Improving understanding of health system resilience and responses to shocks (humanitarian, conflict-related, climatic etc) - including how we think about these concepts, ways in which resilience can be assessed and/or measured, and approaches to strengthening it; and
2. Applications of methods from systems science to optimise the delivery, and uptake of, essential health services across populations.
My PhD, which was funded by the Wellcome Trust, looked at health system resilience to compound shocks in Lebanon, through an analysis of childhood vaccination delivery using System Dynamics Modelling (SDM). Currently, I co-lead an objective on the REACH project, a four-year inter-disciplinary research project funded by the ESRC and AHRC that will quantify the risks from extreme heat and flooding on health systems in Brazil and Zambia to improve health system resilience for maternal and child health.