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Leadership

Dr Neha Singh

Neha Singh

Associate Professor in Health Systems & Policy

Dr Michelle Lokot

Michelle Lokot

Assistant Professor

Dr Catharina Van der Boor

Catharina Van der Boor

Research Fellow

Dr Neha Singh - Co-Director

Neha Singh is Associate Professor in Health Systems and Reproductive, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health. She has a background in public health and expertise in health systems and financing research using mixed methods to improve women’s, children’s and adolescent health in humanitarian crises (Afghanistan, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Uganda) and under-resourced settings (India, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, China). Neha has specific interests in using participatory approaches and research methodologies based on systems thinking and complexity science to analyse and improve the prioritisation, design and delivery of health interventions.

 

Dr Michelle Lokot - Co-Director 

Michelle Lokot is an Assistant Professor. She is an interdisciplinary researcher with an interest in gender, forced migration and humanitarian assistance. Michelle has experience conducting qualitative research, specifically feminist research informed by principles of decolonisation and co-production. Prior to working at LSHTM, Michelle worked in humanitarian organisations, including the International Rescue Committee, Mercy Corps and World Vision, focused on gender equality and gender-based violence. Her current research explores mental health systems (Lebanon), sexual and reproductive health (Somalia, South Sudan), intimate partner violence (Bangladesh) and violence against children (Zimbabwe).

 

Dr Catharina Van der Boor - Co-Director

Catharine Van der Boor is a Global Mental Health researcher specializing in conflict, mental health, forced displacement, and social determinants of wellbeing. With a PhD in Global Mental Health, she focuses on the mental health and wellbeing of forcibly displaced populations. Carine's expertise spans mixed methods and participatory approaches to research, demonstrated through her work as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on a participatory action research project in Colombia. Currently, as a Research Fellow on the CHANGE project at LSHTM, she is leading efforts to develop and implement a brief psychological intervention targeting alcohol misuse and co-occurring psychological distress in conflict-affected populations in Uganda and Ukraine.

Steering Committee

Prof Francesco Checchi

Francesco Checchi

Chair of the Steering Committee, Professor of Epidemiology & International Health

Claire Bertschinger

Assistant Professor & Director for Diploma in Tropical Health

Prof Bayard Roberts

Bayard Roberts

Professor in Health Systems & Policy

Melissa Parker

Professor of Medical Anthropology

Dr Palwasha Anwari

Palwasha Anwari

Dr PhD Fellow

Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Ruwan Ratnayake

(RDS representative) Research degree student in Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Mathematical Modeling

Karl Blanchet

Honorary Associate Professor in Health Systems Research

Dr Lauren D'Mello-Guyett

Lauren D'Mello-Guyett

Research Fellow in the Environmental Health Group

Jimmy Whitworth

Professor of International Public Health

Dr Bhargavi Rao

Bhargavi Rao

Associate Professor of Humanitarian Public Health

Chiara Lepora

Head of the Manson Unit / Deputy Medical Director at Médecins Sans Frontières

Student Representative

Tiffany lok-yan Yeung

RD student representative

Angus Beattie

MSc student liaison officer

Sarah Arunachalam

MSc student liaison officer

Zoha Mian

MSc student liaison officer

Communications

Ms Noreen Seyerl

Noreen Seyerl

Communications Officer