I completed a PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from University College London in 2019, supervised by Profs David Osrin, Jonathan Wells and Bianca De Stavola. My thesis, entitled Infant and young child growth and nutrition in urban informal settlements in Mumbai, India, was examined by Prof Paula Griffiths from Loughborough University and Dr Clare Llewellyn from University College London, and I passed with minor corrections.

I studied at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2012-13) and was awarded the John Rivers Prize for outstanding progress on the MSc Nutrition for Global Health, after which I completed a second MSc in Global Public Health and Policy from Queen Mary, University of London (2013-14). I have a BSc in Home Science (Foods, Nutrition and Dietetics) from the University of Mumbai.  

Between 2014 and 2017 I was part of the Global Nutrition Report's International Secretariat, and contributed to the first four annual reports as data analyst - based at the Institute of Development Studies in Brighton (2014-16) and the UCL Institute for Global Health (2016-17). The Global Nutrition Report series has been critical in making evidence-based arguments for improving population nutrition and promoting accountability to meet global targets. I also advised the UN Scaling Up Nutrition Secretariat on their Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework in 2017.

At an institutional level, I am particularly interested in improving research culture and gender equality for early career researchers, and aim to integrate principles of open science and transparency in my career and research practice. 

I am a Registered Associate Nutritionist (ANutr).