I am working in global public health, with current interests in biosocial understandings of disease, the social and political roots of health inequalities, hard to reach communities and sustainable development. My PhD in global health and development explored the Maasai response to MDA for trachoma in Tanzania. I am interested more broadly in the contribution of social science to NTD and emerging infection control research, global health interventions, and policy tackling health inequalities.
Affiliations
Teaching
I hold a faculty position at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUCo) in Tanzania where I teach qualitative research, research methods and research ethics. I have supervised Masters students at LSHTM and KCMUCo. I currently supervise a PhD student working on improving glaucoma detection in Kilimanjaro.
Research
I have been working in Tanzania since 2004 initially on clinical trials for HIV prevention. My recent work focuses on the social science contributions of eye health, and NTDs interventions.