I am a biostatistician in the Medical Statistics department at LSHTM with an interest in non-communicable disease including asthma, eczema and chronic kidney disease. My methodological interest lies in the challenges of combining and analysing data from multi-site studies.
Following a career-change from financial services, I completed an MSc in Medical Statistics at LSHTM in 2016 followed by a PhD in 2022 also at LSHTM, on multi-level modelling of global time trends in asthma.
Affiliations
Teaching
For the MSc Medical Statistics I am co-module organiser of the Regression sub-module in Foundations of Medical Statistics as well as a personal tutor. I also teach on the modules Foundations of Medical Statistics (Analytical Techniques) and the Analysis of Hierarchical and Other Dependant Data.
I am a tutor on the DL Epidemiology programme for module EPM105 (Writing and Reviewing Epidemiological Papers) and previously for EPM202 (Statistical Methods in Epidemiology).
I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Research
My current work is to create a personalised clinical prediction score for persistent/severe eczema based on early life factors, combining data from cohorts in the UK, Ecuador and Uganda.
Other work includes the CAMERA study investigating causes of non-allergic asthma in children using case control studies from New Zealand, Ecuador, Brazil and Uganda. My analysis also brings in global data from ISAAC and UK data from ALSPAC.
I also work on the DEGREE and the Getting to the Causes of CKDu studies investigating epidemics of chronic kidney disease of unknown cause (CKDu) affecting young adults in rural areas of Central America and South Asia. Here I have worked with both cross-sectional survey data from multiple countries and longitudinal cohort data from Sri Lanka.
My PhD was on multi-level modelling of international variations and time trends in asthma and allergic diseases in children. I used data from the Global Asthma Network (GAN) and the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC).
Selected Publications
