I am a Research Assistant at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where I am also completing a staff PhD. Working in partnership with The Love Tank, my current research explores health system and community perspectives on sexual health and syphilis care in the UK.
My work sits at the intersection of health systems, policy and health equity. I am particularly interested in how power and wider political, historical and structural conditions shape health and care. I am also interested in how communities experience and navigate these systems, and in the roles of community knowledge and organising in responding to and challenging them.
I bring experience across health systems planning, policy, public health practice and applied research in Canada, East Africa, South Asia and the UK. Prior to joining LSHTM, I worked across government, health systems, international development and community organisations.
Affiliations
Teaching
I lead seminars, lectures and assessment on the following modules:
- Designing Public Health Programmes (DPHP)
- Health Policy, Process & Power (HPPP)
- Applied Communicable Disease Control (ACDC)
I also supervise MSc research projects and welcome enquiries from students interested in potential supervision.
Research
My research interests centre on the relationships between health, health systems and power. I am particularly interested in how political, historical and structural conditions shape health, access to care and experiences of health systems, especially among communities facing marginalisation and exclusion.
I am interested in the ways communities navigate, contest and respond to health and social systems, including the roles of community knowledge, organising, solidarity and resistance. This extends to questions about whose knowledge informs health policy and research, how systems reproduce or challenge inequities, and how community-led approaches can shape more just forms of care.
My interests include sexual and reproductive health, migrant and refugee health, political determinants of health, and the health consequences of political repression and structural violence. Methodologically, I am particularly interested in qualitative, participatory and community-engaged research. My work is increasingly informed by critical political economy, Black feminist thought, decolonial, feminist and queer scholarship.
