I am a health social scientist specialising in mixed methods research. My work is on mental health, child and adolescent health and implementation research. My particular interest is in the design and evaluation of school-based interventions to reduce bullying and improve mental wellbeing. I also have extensive experience in social, cultural, economic and behavioural aspects of infectious disease control. I began my career studying cholera control in Sub-Saharan in Africa. After completing my doctoral studies at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and University of Basel in 2015, I worked at the National University of Singapore before moving to the UK on a fellowship to work at LSHTM.