I recently joined LSHTM after 10 years working at Médecins Sans Frontières (Operational Centre Amsterdam), including leading the Emerging and Infectious Diseases portfolio, dividing my time between COVID-19, malaria and other infectious diseases outbreaks. I have worked in humanitarian responses across multiple contexts, and am a public health clinician with a PhD in infectious disease epidemiology.

In my new role, I'm developing a portfolio of research on malaria and infectious disease control in public health crises and complex emergencies, with a particular interest in surveillance, early-warning systems and anticipatory action (linking disease, climate and conflict) as well as zero-dose communities, vaccination and other mass-interventions strategies in crises.

In addition I am one of the co-Programme Directors of the new Distance-Learning Health in Humanitarian Crises programme and currently also module organiser for HHM102 Design & Planning of Humanitarian projects. I additionally am co-editing the revised Conflict and Health textbook which serves as the basis for the distance learning PHM214 Conflict & Health module.

To keep connected to the operational front-line, I'm continuing in a part-time role at MSF as Clinical Research Lead and malaria/infectious diseases advisor, as well as retaining an honorary clinical position with UKSHA.