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 several 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) Dengue outbreaks in Nepal ii) NTDs surveillance and control ii) Precision mapping, hotspot analysis, risk stratification, and multi-criteria decision analytics iv) CLIMate SEnsitive DISease Forecasting Tool (CLimSeDis )