My work is on health systems and implementation research, using mixed-methods. My particular interest is health system strategies to improve implementation of, and sustained access to, evidence-based health services, products, and technologies for chronic illness in low-resource and crisis-affected settings.
Affiliations
Centres
Teaching
I am module organiser for Conflict & Health and a tutor for MSc students. I also currently supervise two Research Degree students working on different aspects of health systems and access to care and medicines for chronic illness.
Research
I currently hold a UKRI Future Research Leader Fellowship to study the health systems factors affecting implementation of fixed dose combination therapy for hypertension and cardiovascular disease. This work is focused in Kenya and The Gambia and is a partnership with KEMRI-Wellcome Trust and the MRC LSHTM Unit in The Gambia. I am also co-Chair of the Lancet Commission on the Future of Ukraine's Health System.
Previously, I held a Wellcome Trust Fellowship to study the impact of health care and medicine costs on healthcare- seeking and risk of impoverishment among households with cardiovascular disease in South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. I was also co-Investigator on an implementation research project to understand patient, health worker and policy-maker experiences of a new model of hypertension care in Kenya, and a study of mental health care utilisation and expenditure among Syrian refugees in Lebanon. I have previously conducted health services research in Kenya, Ukraine, the Republic of Georgia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Niger and India and have worked with various international organisations, including WHO, UNHCR and Médecins Sans Frontières.
I am Co-Director of the LSHTM Centre for Global Chronic Conditions.
