My main area of research interest is improvement of reproductive health and minimising adverse effects of population changes on health and welfare worldwide. In the past few years, I've been extending my interest to infertility, childless/child-free and access and quality of fertility treatments in UK and other regions.
I have worked with a wide range of organisations from NGOs to government and international organisations. I currently work at LSHTM part time on Thursdays as Programme Director for the Nagasaki University-LSHTM Joint PhD programme, and work as Senior Research Manager at the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), UK, for the rest of a week.
Affiliations
Centres
Teaching
I work at LSHTM on Thursdays as Programme Director for the Nagasaki-LSHTM Joint PhD Programme.
Previously, I was co-Interim Programme Director for the online MSc in Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy & Programming (2021-2022), and co-Programme Director for MSc in Reproductive and Sexual Health Research (RSHR) and MSc in Demography and Health (D&H) (2020-2022).
I have taught as a practical leader and lecturer for Statistics for Epidemiology and Population Health, Demographic Methods, Research Design and Analysis and Analysing Survey and Population Data.
Externally, I developed online/web-based sessions on Proximate determinants of fertility and Measuring fertility preferences, unintended pregnancy and access to family planning, as part of the UNFPA funded IUSSP distance learning course Population Analysis for Policies and Programmes in early 2010s.
Research
I have conducted research on fertility, family planning, maternal health, unintended pregnancies and demographic dividend in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. My PhD was on the re-assessment of fertility trends in 17 sub-Saharan African countries. This research included the development of a new trend estimation method adjusting for common errors in Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), and the assessment of changes in proximate determinants of fertility in the past two decades. Recently, I've been extending my interest to infertility, childless/child-free and access and quality of fertilty treatments in UK and other regions.
Selected Publications
