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- Doctoral Researcher
- Infection & Population Health
- Institute for Global Health
- Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
Laura has conducted research on a wide range of public health issues and has experience designing, delivering and evaluating research to improve public health and inform public health policy. Her PhD at LSHTM explored environmental links with breastfeeding in the UK and at LSE her research focussed on women’s reproductive health in low- and middle-income countries. At Public Health England, she applied behavioural science to the key public health areas of diet and obesity and sexual health, focussing on public food environments and HIV. Laura co-founded the Environment x Women’s Health Project and organised a series of workshops to bring together academics and practitioners interested in the environment-gender-health nexus to facilitate knowledge exchange and networking across the UK, Peru and beyond. Laura’s fieldwork experience includes administering sex and relationships education surveys in London secondary schools, delivering PhotoVoice activities to teenagers as part of a UK-Japan adolescent sociality project and conducting online interviews with Peruvian NGOs.
Laura is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher based at the Institute for Global Health at UCL where she is working on The EVE Project, a community-based co-created research study to improve the evidence around preventing violence against women in the world’s highest prevalence settings, with case studies in Peru and Samoa, and Siyaphambili Youth, an interdisciplinary participatory Global Challenges Research Fund project looking at contextual factors that shape HIV risk and co-morbidities for young people in South Africa.
Laura has taught undergraduate and postgraduate students at King’s College London, LSE, LSHTM, University of Oxford and UCL in various subjects, including Concepts & Controversies in Global Health, Applied Epidemiology & Social Statistics, Data Management & Manipulation, Evolutionary Medicine & Public Health and Key Concepts in Global Health.
Laura provides study skills mentoring for postgraduate/research degree students registered with disability support services and supports MSc students in a personal tutoring capacity.
Laura supervises MSc student dissertations on topics related to climate change/environment and women’s health and is happy to hear from potential MSc/PhD students also interested in this area.
05-OCT-2020 | Postdoctoral Researcher | Institute for Global Health | UCL, United Kingdom |
01-OCT-2019 – 30-SEP-2020 | ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of International Development | London School of Economics & Political Science, United Kingdom |