I am an Assistant Professor in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology and a Paediatric Infectious Diseases consultant at Evelina Children’s Hospital and St. George’s Hospital London. My research aims to reduce the burden of infectious diseases in the most overlooked children.
I am a collaborator on the Wellcome funded LIFE Zika study where I work closely with the Microcephaly Epidemic Research Group (MERG) and The Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS) in Fiocruz, Brazil to study the long term consequences for children born with congenital Zika infection in Brazil and the wider impacts on their families and societies.
I am also a Senior Clinical Lecturer at City, St. George's University of London, in the Centre for Neonatal and Paediatric Infection and the Migrant Health Research Group where I am currently studying vaccination uptake and infectious diseases outcomes in migrant children using England-wide administrative health datasets.
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I have an MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health and Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from LSHTM during which I led a study in Peru which resulted in the first systematic review on Bartonella bacilliformis.
In 2015, I secured a PhD fellowship from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) leading a research project in the state Sao Paulo which followed up 750 pregnant women and their children during the Zika virus epidemic in Brazil.
During my post-doc at LSHTM (2019-22), I obtained funding to use large administrative healthcare datasets to study paediatric migrant healthcare use and outcomes and worked with Doctors of the World, to analyse maternal and postnatal outcomes of undocumented migrants in the UK. I also worked with the RESPOND migrant health project at UCLH and carried out qualitative research to inform the design of pathways for newly arrived asylum seeking children and young people.
In 2022 I was appointed as NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer at St. George’s and obtained Academy of Medical Science (AMS) funding to study healthcare use and infectious disease diagnoses and outcomes among children who require an interpreter in England using HDR-UK linked primary and secondary care datasets in collaboration with Robert Aldridge and the Data Science team at UCL.
Alongside this, I have a strong interest in participatory research, and together with the Migrant Health Research Group at St. George's I have co-created a sustainable community-led migrant health network of individuals with lived experience to work on research together.
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