I'm an Assistant Professor in Humanitarian Health Practice at the LSHTM. I'm a medical doctor and epidemiologist from Sudan with extensive experience in public health programming in humanitarian settings. I have filled a variety of technical advisory and programmatic roles, supporting the design, delivery, and monitoring of health programmes in Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Turkey, among other crises.

In my current role at the LHSTM, I'm co-principal investigator of RESONATE, a research project in support of a large-scale programme led by Save the Children to increase equitable childhood vaccination coverage in Ethiopia and Nigeria. The research component will attempt to find and amplify evidence-based, sustainable, scalable solutions to overcome entrenched barriers that prevent zero-dose and under-immunised children from being fully immunised. The research project is a collaboration between the Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI) in Ethiopia, the University of Ilorin in Nigeria and LSHTM.

My previous research projects related to the governance and delivery of childhood vaccines in humanitarian settings, and the appropriateness of humanitarian health and nutrition responses. I'm also a founding member of the Sudan Research Group, a community-led, youth-powered movement to support the response to COVID-19 and other public health emergencies in Sudan through evidence generation, capacity building and policy impact.

I hold a Postgraduate Diploma and Master of Science in Epidemiology from LSHTM and I am a member of the Global Health Cluster’s Public Health Information Services Task Team. Currently, I'm a PhD candidate at LSHTM, exploring the risk perceptions of competing epidemic-prone diseases in contexts that are highly vulnerable to epidemics, using Sudan as a case study.