About
I am an epidemiologist with extensive research and training experience in tropical disease biology, ecology, surveillance and control in more than 20 countries in the sub-Saharan African, Middle Eastern and Asia-Pacific regions. I joined the Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences (IVES) in 2021. My current research focuses on Global and Planetary Health, specifically the landscape ecology and applied epidemiology of vector-borne diseases, neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and emerging zoonosis in humans in the context of environmental and climate change. I use geographical information systems, meteorological data. and remote sensing data and statistical applications to better understand the factors driving the spatial-temporal distributions of human infections and clinical conditions, and insect vectors, with capacity strengthening of students and scientists as a cross-cutting theme.
I teach on many undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. I lead the Global Outbreak Surveillance and Control module of the MSc Emerging Infections & Pandemics (https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/2025/emerging-infections-and-pandemics). I am programme lead for the exciting new MSc Planetary and One Health (https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/2025/planetary-and-one-health-msc). I have supervised 12 PhD students and have opportunities for self-funded research projects on vector-borne disease environmental risk mapping.
Current research projects focus on i) Vector-borne diseases in Nepal ii) NTDs, surveillance, control, elimination in Africa and Asia ii) Characterising analytical methods to optimise global disease policymaking and evidence translation iv) CLIMate SEnsitive DISease Forecasting Tool (CLimSeDis) v) Determining the impact and strategies to tackle complex challenges related to climate and conflict extreme events and vi) Climate sensitive diseases in Yemen.