My work in the Emirates and in the UK has made novel contributions to our understandings of how conditions of uncertainty become embodied, informing both pathology as well as health-seeking behaviours. Throughout this work I strive to impact and mitigate against the rising global rates of chronic illness, and I have researched biological, social and structural influences to Obesity and Diabetes, and most recently Covid-19, in different contexts globally, publishing this work for scholarly audiences as well as in applied publications for the NHS, Parliament white papers, and reports with Health Think Tanks.

In my role with the ERC funded project Ethno-ISS, I currently lead on research to study the human body off-world, on the International Space Station, and, in partnership with the UK's and the EU's broad  Aerospace industry, the human body in future habitation on the Moon, Mars, and on Earth in the context of rapid environmental change.