Am a practicing clinician who completed a MSc in public health in developing countries in 2009, I returned to the school to work on diagnostic algorithms for NTDs, and subsequently completed a PhD on clinical management visceral leishmaniasis at the Institute of Tropical Medicine/University of Antwerp.
After a long period working as Medical Advisor, Asia for Médecins Sans Frontières, I am now the Medical Director of the international Planetary Health NGO, Health in Harmony.
I hold long-standing interests in Neglected Tropical Diseases, with a particular focus on Leishmaniasis. I've also been involved in research on anthropometric cut-offs in the management of severe malnutrition, and the potential utility of biomarkers in prognostication of sepsis.
More recently I have been involved in One Health research, looking at the role and interaction between human health and deforestation. I am interested in evidence backed operationalisation of Planetary Health.
I continue in an honourary capacity at the LSHTM as an Associate Professor, and as a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Tropical Medicine at Nagasaki University.
Affiliations
Teaching
I teach on the MTM & DTMH at Nagasaki University.
Research
Recent research includes:
RCT for treatments of HIV-Visceral Leishmaniasis coinfection in India
Diagnosis and progression of asymptomatic leishmaniasis infection in PLHIV
Antropometric sensitivity and efficacy in severe acute malnutrition
Early predictors of sepsis in febrile patients
Prognostication of Oxygen requirements in patients presenting with moderate COVID
Community designed interventions to regenerate rainforest and prevent disease in Madagascar