I am Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Lead at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on three NIHR-funded projects using electronic health record data: Winter Pressures in primary care, Overture - vaccine effectiveness, and a PhD on respiratory virus risk. I am also a PhD student at Queen Mary University of London researching people's experiences of PPIE in multiple sclerosis research.
Affiliations
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Teaching
I am a tutor at LSHTM on the MSc Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy & Programming. I have given lectures on PPI to undergraduate students, ECRs, the Integrated Academic Training Scheme, supervised student projects, and marked student papers and assignments.
Research
I am interested in:
- patient involvement
- qualitative research
- lived experience
- co-production
- long-term health conditions
Selected Publications
The effect of patient involvement on multiple sclerosis research: Learnings from 10 years of the Barts MS Advisory Group
2023
European Committee on Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis, Milan, Italy
Patient and public involvement in research: the need for budgeting PPI staff costs in funding applications.
2023
Research Involvement and Engagement
Experiences of post-traumatic stress disorder in people living with Multiple Sclerosis
2022
European Committee on Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
How people benefit from doing patient and public involvement: a scoping review
2022
European Committee on Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Missed MS or MIMS not prodromal MS: Expanding the diagnostic MS spectrum.
2021
Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders
It Takes a Village: Perspectives from a Multidisciplinary Team Addressing the Needs of HIV+ Refugees in Canada
2011
Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees
