Biography
I am currently undertaking a PhD within the Disease Dynamics Unit of the University of Cambridge, supervised by Professor Caroline Trotter. Within my PhD I am currently aiming to build a predictive geographic model that can estimate the risk of meningitis outbreaks across Africa based on temporal climate variables. Before beginning my PhD I completed a BSc in Biomedical Science at the University of Kent and an MSc in Tropical Disease Biology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. I previously worked as an Epidemiology and Information Analyst within the UK Health Security Agency Field Service on a wide variety of communicable disease outbreaks. Through this work, I led a research project on at-risk groups for late HIV diagnosis. Additionally, whilst at UKHSA I was able to undertake a secondment with the WHO working as an epidemiologist on the monkeypox outbreak within Europe.
Research
Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Global Public Health, Climate Change, Vulnerable and Displaced Populations.
Other Professional Activities
Bacterial Meningitis
Global Health
Infectious Disease
Epidemiology
Climate Science