About
I am a Lecturer in Public Health. I have an interest in ethnic health inequities in maternal, neonatal and child health, working with colleagues in the Health Inequalities Policy Research (HIP-R) theme of the Department of Public Health Policy and Systems. I primarily use quantitative epidemiological methods applied to real-world evidence and large, complex data sets. I am a Co-I on NIHR School for Public Health Research project as well as MATRIACH_CF.
Previously, I was an NIHR School for Public Health Research Post-doctoral Launching Fellow working within the Children, young people and families as well as the health inequalities themes where I explored the concept of quantitative intersectionality in ethnic and socio-economic inequalities in maternal and child health. I have led government commissioned evidence based synthesis as Principal Investigator on Mapping existing policy interventions to tackle ethnic health inequalities in maternal and neonatal health ( https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3166498). I have also worked on the UK Cystic Fibrosis Registry data as part of the CF PROSPER project to investigate the outcomes of pregnancy in women with Cystic Fibrosis.
Prior to joining HIP-R, I completed my DPhil (PhD) at the University of Oxford, where I used primary care (CPRD) linked to hospital (HES), deaths (ONS), deprivation (IMD) data and laboratory data (PHE) to determine the incidence of sequelae of gastrointestinal infections, the associated risk factors, and the economic burden to the NHS in England.
Prior to my DPhil, I held various roles with Public Health England, spanning assay development for dengue fever, surveillance of infectious diseases (sexually transmitted infections, gastrointestinal infections), outbreak response (pandemic Influenza, gastrointestinal infections), to public health intelligence (developing an Excess Winter Deaths Atlas for England to support local joint needs strategic assessment and commissioning of services). I have a BSc. (Hons) in Microbiology and an MSc. in Clinical Microbiology both obtained from the University of Nottingham.