I am a Research Fellow in the International Centre for Evidence in Disability, working on the PENDA programme to generate evidence on disability inclusion in development and public health. I also helped to develop ICED's MICS database and support disability-related analyses in the database.
Previously, I have worked on disability-inclusion, equitable access to vaccinations, and health policy for organizations including the World Bank, WHO, Health Canada, CEPI, and The Missing Billion Initiative. I graduated with a B.S. in Global Health from Georgetown University and recently completed my DPhil in Primary Health Care at the University of Oxford, where I studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
Affiliations
Teaching
I am part of the EDI teaching team at the University of Oxford's medical school, where I helped develop the EDI curriculum with regards to disability. I also guest lecture on the Social Epidemiology course at LSHTM.
Research
I am interested in how health systems can be improved for people with disabilities. My previous work has focused on:
1. developing a model to quantify the life expectancy gap for people with disabilities;
2. evaluating and improving disability training for health workers;
3. using large household datasets to understand disability-based inequities in health, education, and social outcomes; and
4. improving the accessibility of health facilities, transportation, and vaccination systems for people with disabilities.
I have an interest in generating evidence on health inequities for people with disabilities, as well as the use of machine learning and AI to uncover these inequities and improve access to health information for people with learning disabilites.
Selected Publications
