I am an epidemiologist working on public health in humanitarian crises. I focus on the surveillance and control of cholera and epidemic diseases, policy guidance, spatial and mathematical modelling, and merging modern analytical methods with field epidemiology to solve problems. I also work on topics relating to noncommunicable diseases and community health in emergencies.

Before coming to the school, I was the lead epidemiologist for the International Rescue Committee (IRC), where I supported humanitarian programmes worldwide, as well as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Conflict and Health. I trained as an FETP fellow with the Canadian Field Epidemiology Program of the Public Health Agency of Canada.

I am now pursuing a PhD supervised by Francesco Checchi and John Edmunds. With colleagues at Epicentre and Medecins Sans Frontieres, I aim to evaluate the effects of case-area targeted interventions for cholera outbreaks using mathematical modeling and observational studies. The work is generously supported by a Doctoral Foreign Study Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

For non-communicable diseases, I recently worked wth the IRC to develop and evaluate programs for noncommunicable disease management through primary and community health systems for Syrian refugees in Jordan and conflict-affected persons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.