I am a Research Fellow in NCDs in Humanitarian Settings in the Department of NCD Epidemiology. My research focuses on strengthening equitable and resilient health systems for people living with non-communicable diseases in humanitarian and crisis-affected settings.
My interests include universal health coverage, health systems strengthening, and crisis preparedness, with a particular focus on underserved and displaced populations. I use mixed-methods and systems-based approaches, including realist evaluation, social network analysis, causal loop analysis to explore how health systems and community organisations can better respond to complex public health challenges.
Before joining LSHTM, I worked as a Research Associate in Universal Health Coverage at Imperial College London and The George Institute for Global Health, where I contributed to research on Lancet commission on pandemic preparedness, prevention and reponse. Prior to that, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, where my research focused on social prescribing and community-based health interventions.
I hold a PhD in Health Policy, my PhD research was methodologically innovative, being one of the first studies to use social network analysis to understand how health financing architecture impacts financing equity. My work aims to generate policy-relevant evidence that advances health equity and improves access to health services for vulnerable populations globally.
Affiliations
Teaching
- ‘Qualitative and Survey Design Methods’ unit, as well as the ‘Global Health Challenges’ unit, both for the M.Sc. in Health Economics and Health Policy in two semesters, which consisted of a combination of co-teaching, tutoring, marking, and asynchronous tasks.
- Health sociology to dentistry students for two years (Iran)
- Short course on Improving resource use: an introduction to economic approaches to evaluating health and care interventions, both in March and October 2024 alongside the Health Economics team in ARC West.
- External lecturer in the ‘Social Health Protection for Universal Health Coverage’ unit for the M.Sc. in Public Health Programme, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, in 2021.