I am a board-certified veterinarian in preventive medicine & public health. My interests encompass food safety, antimicrobial resistance, pandemic preparedness and environmental epidemiology. In my research I’ve used a systems approach to explore climate determinants of disease transmission from livestock to people through shared watersheds, dissemination of AMR in human pathogens into the agricultural environment, and national preparedness capacities for emerging infectious disease spillover from wildlife/informal markets.

I recently led a climate change and health policy project in Kenya using evidence synthesis and modelling approaches to provide decision-support to policymakers, am a co-investigator on a climate change and pandemic preparedness project in SSA, funded by IDRC, and provide research support to establish a Lancet Countdown Africa Regional Centre.

I previously worked in veterinary practice and shelter medicine in Canada and the UK. Prior to joining LSHTM, I led veterinary capacity building programs to support humane free-roaming dog population control and canine rabies prevention in Ukraine and the Balkans. I sit on the Policy Committee of the British Veterinary Association and am affiliated with the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health.