I am a paediatric and public heath doctor by background and have worked in global health for over 20 years. I am also a Registered Nutrionist (RNutr) with the Association for Nutrition.

My focus areas include: 

• Severe malnutrition (with a particular focus on infants); 
• Long-term outcomes (non-communicable disease) post malnutrition; 
• Disability; 
• Clinical trials;
• Getting research into policy/practice (GRIPP). 
• Teaching, supporting and mentoring the 'next generation' of global health practitioners and policy-makers. 
  
  I have been at LSHTM since September 2014. Early experiences before that included:
• Projects in Yugoslavia and Guyana, including a Raleigh International Expedition in South America;
• A year out of medical school in India: in and around Delhi leading a Royal Geographical Society project on health in urban slums and a EHA project on hospital waste; doing my first RCT in a Calcutta street clinic;
• Post-qualification work in Serbia, Bosnia and in the UK.
  
  I initially trained in paediatrics in Plymouth and London. After passing my MRCPCH (Memebership of Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health) exams in 2001, I left the NHS in 2003 to volunteer for a year as a paediatric registrar/honorary clinical lecturer at the College of Medicine, Malawi. Most of that life-changing year I spent on “MOYO” ward of Queen's Hospital, Blantyre, one of Africa’s biggest and busiest nutritional rehabilitation units. Following a 2004-5 LSHTM MSc (PHDC) I returned to Malawi from 2005-8, again combining clinical work, teaching and this time my PhD research into "Improving the Treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Childhood" 
  
  From 2009-2014 I was a specialty registrar in public health in London, gaining my MFPH (Member of the Faculty of Public Health) qualification in 2011 and becoming a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (FFPH) in 2014 upon completing CCT (Certificate of Completion of Specialty Training). During training, I also held academic posts which allowed me to maintain and develop international work alongside UK practice:
• NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow at the UCL Institute for Global Health
• NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer at the UCL International Disability Reserach Centre
  
  With my current focus on global health I no longer practice in the UK but remain on the GMC register (registered but without licence to practice). I am on the Association for Nutrition Register as a registered nutritionist (RNutr),