I joined LSHTM in 1997 to undertake analyses on Polio vaccination strategies for the Polio Eradication Programme, and on BCG vaccination for the World Health Organization (WHO) under the guidance of Professor Paul Fine. Subsequently I moved to work on malaria epidemiology in Surat, India and Tanzania as part of the Department for International Development (DfID) funded Malaria Knowledge Programme and later the TARGETS Communicable Disease Consortium, and as part of the Medical Research Council (MRC) funded Malaria Centre. I provided statistical advice and support on several vector control intervention projects including trials of insecticide-treated nets and other insecticide-impregnated materials in India, Tanzania, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan, intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) in Ghana and Tanzania, and insect repellents in China and Laos. I received funding from the WHO to estimate the global burden of malaria in children and then to study age-patterns of malaria. I received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to assess the Applicability of IPTi, and developed a web-based decision-support tool to guide national and sub-national policymakers in sub-Saharan Africa (ipti.lshtm.ac.uk). I have not undertaken any academic research since 2012, when I shifted my focus to teaching.