I am a Research Fellow in the Gender Violence & Health Centre (GVHC) with over 10 years experience conducting global health research. Grounded in an intersectional feminist epistemology, my research is action-oriented and aimed at informing intervention development, implementation and evaluation to prevent sexual exploitation of children and adolescents and intimate partner violence. I am particularly interested in how social norms interact with structural drivers to perpetuate these harmful behaviours, and how they can be used as a tool for prevention.

I am currently working on a cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating the Learning Initiative on Norms, Exploitation and Abuse (LINEA) radio drama and curricula. LINEA aims to shift the norms driving age-disparate transactional sex between adolescent girls and older men in Mwanza, Tanzania. My PhD is embedded within the process evaluation of this trial, exploring the processes and impacts of diffusion of intervention key messages throughout communities. 

I also support a project that aims to provide recommendations on how to decolonise the field of violence against women and girls and coordinate a collaboration exploring the role of infidelity and romantic jealousy in intimate partner violence against women. I am Deputy Lead of the Adolescent theme of the Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive and Child Health (MARCH) centre. Prior to this position, I supported the writing of evidence-based health policy reports at the Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC. I hold an MSc in Public Health from LSHTM and a BA in Psychology and Communications from Lewis & Clark College. For my MSc dissertation, I conducted a secondary qualitative analysis on parental communication about transactional sex in Uganda.