I have been working in the Environmental Health Group at LSHTM since 2011. Prior to joining LSHTM I worked for two years as an epidemiologist at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health (RIVM) as a Fellow on the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET). As an EPIET Fellow I was involved in research projects, surveillance activities and outbreak investigations. I worked on a variety of vaccine-preventable diseases, food-borne illnesses, sexually transmitted diseases and hospital-acquired infections. During this Fellowship I also consulted for the World Health Organisation on polio vaccination in Northern Nigeria. Prior to the Netherlands, I was based in Zambia for nearly two years where I coordinated the research activities at study sites in Ndola and Kitwe for an HIV research group from Emory University. I have a BSc First Class Honours degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Birmingham (2005) and an MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases from LSHTM (2006). I recently completed my PhD  on the design and evaluation of a multiple behaviour change intervention to control childhood diarrhoea in Zambia.