As a part of RECAP, I research questions of evidence conceptualization, production and use in humanitarian health care settings.

As a member of the maternal and neonatal health group, my research within a variety of projects focuses on maternal health policy and decision-making and the ethnography of health facility environments.

I am also interested in studying the impact of aid organisations; choices and identities surrounding health care and well being; personal and institutional responses to change; and the interplay between different beliefs and health systems.

In the past, I have worked with the Maternal healthcare markets Evaluation Team (MET), investigating the role of social franchising models in the private sector as a method of improving access to antenatal care and delivery and improving quality of care in Uganda and India (Uttar Pradesh & Rajasthan). I studied clinical audits in maternal health with AudObEm, a randomised controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of facility-based audits to improve the responsiveness of West African district hospitals to obstetric emergencies in Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger. I have also looked at the process of instituting the maternal death surveillance and response mechanism and scorecards in maternal health in Tanzania with E4A. As a part of FEMHealth (EU FP7), a project looking at the impact of the removal of obstetric user fees on maternity care in African countries, my research focused on two main areas: the quality of care in hospitals and the creation and transfer of health policy (in Morocco, Benin, Burkina Faso and Mali).