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- Lecturer in Infectious Disease Epidemiology
- Institute for Global Health
- Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
I have a first degree in
Pharmacy and completed my PhD at UCL GOS Institute of Child Health on the
epidemiology of HIV among childbearing women in Europe, working on the European
Collaborative Study and with a particular focus on the epidemic in Ukraine. My
doctoral work identified groups of women living with HIV in Europe at
heightened risk of vertical transmission and/or poor maternal outcomes. From
2013-19 I worked as a Research Associate at UCL GOS Institute of Child Health on
research projects spanning HIV, viral hepatitis and zika in pregnancy and childhood, before joining UCL Institute for Global Health in 2019.
I am interested in the impact of
infections on maternal and child health including vertical transmission and its
prevention, and health and outcomes of children and young people living with
congenitally-acquired infection. Recent work within the European Pregnancy and
Paediatric HIV Cohort Collaboration (EPPICC) has focused on the safety of antiretroviral
therapy among pregnant women living with HIV, and I recently led a study of
young people living with HIV in Ukraine (2015-17) which explored the
characteristics and health outcomes of 10-24 year olds living with perinatally or recently acquired HIV. This work
was funded
by the International AIDS Society’s CIPHER initiative.
As part of recent work funded by the NHS
Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy Screening Programme I coordinated an audit
of the management of pregnant women with hepatitis B across England who began
antenatal care in 2014 – results are informing optimisation of strategies to
prevent vertically-acquired hepatitis B among babies born in the UK. As a member of the ZIKAction Horizon2020
consortium in 2016-19 I contributed to the development and coordination of pregnancy and
paediatric cohorts in Jamaica, Haiti and Ecuador. I am currently working as a member of the PENTA-coordinated REACH H2020 project (2019-2021)
which seeks to answer research questions relating to HIV and TB and hepatitis C
co-infection in pregnancy and childhood in the Russian Federation.
I was recently awarded funding from the Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard scheme for a feasibility study to investigate approaches to understanding the consequences of congenital cytomegalovirus infection for child health.
I am co-director of the MSc Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the UCL Institute for Global Health and co-lead core modules: Fundamental Principles of Infection and Population Health, and Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. I contribute to teaching on other programmes including the MSc in Paediatrics and Child Health and the BSc Population Health.
In July 2018 and July 2019, I joined faculty for a residential
PENTA/UNICEF Tr@inforPedHIV
course in Kyrgyzstan and in Belarus, lecturing on the epidemology of HIV in Eastern Europe and
Central Asia, global elimination of vertical HIV transmission, and epidemiology of hepatitis B and C.
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
I am interested in supervising student projects in infectious disease epidemiology, particularly in relation to maternal and child health.
2013 | Doctor of Philosophy | University College London | |
2007 | Master of Pharmacy | University of Bath |