I am an Economist with over 10 years experience studying patient behaviour, health systems financing and medical poverty. I trained in Economics and Demography at the University of Cape Town and carried out my PhD at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine on “Understanding the demand for health services in Cape Town: Implications for health equity and effective TB care delivery”.  My applied research has focused primarily on the Economics of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and maternal care, including treatment seeking behaviour, the financial burden of service use and the economic evaluation of interventions to improve outcomes.  I worked with the ICRC in post-conflict Serbia for a number of years, advising on health-financing mechanisms, survey methodology and data- analysis.  More recently I have advised Save the Children, Bayer Pharmaceuticals and the Government of Barbados among others.  My current work is primarily focussed on i) links between treatment seeking behaviour and poverty, ii) the impact of community participatory interventions on maternal capability,  and iii) the economic evaluation of a number of large scale interventions to reduce neonatal mortality and improve child development.  I am actively involved in the development of a number of new research initiatives.