I am a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Evidence in Disability at the °®ÍþÄÌapp of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where my work focuses on advancing disability inclusion in global health. I lead a trial evaluating the impact of a violence prevention programme for children with disabilities in Tanzania and support additional disability-inclusive health and social protection trials in Rwanda, Uganda, and Sierra Leone through the Programme for Evidence to Inform Disability Action (PENDA). I also serve as a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Disability and Health, a member of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Workforce Competency Standards for Disability Inclusion, and was a key contributor to the Global Disability Inclusion Report (2025).
I have published over 30 articles in top journals, including The Lancet Public Health, and my research and advocacy have contributed to policy change. During the COVID-19 pandemic, my work helped improve vaccine prioritisation and clinic accessibility for people with disabilities in Canada and the UK. I also developed a model showing that people with disabilities experience a 14-year gap in life expectancy—a now widely cited statistic on health inequities, including in UN reports and declarations.
Beyond my work at LSHTM, I have contributed to disability inclusion, vaccination equity, and health policy initiatives for several organisations, including the World Bank, WHO, Health Canada, CEPI, Special Olympics International, and The Missing Billion Initiative. I graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Global Health from Georgetown University (2020) and completed a DPhil in Primary Health Care at the University of Oxford (2023) as a Rhodes Scholar.
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Teaching
Research
1. developing a model to quantify the life expectancy gap for people with disabilities;
2. evaluating and improving disability training for health workers;
3. using large household datasets to understand disability-based inequities in health, education, and social outcomes; and
4. improving the accessibility of health facilities, transportation, and vaccination systems for people with disabilities.
I have an interest in generating evidence on health inequities for people with disabilities, as well as the use of machine learning and AI to uncover these inequities and improve access to health information for people with learning disabilites.
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