I am a Research Fellow at the Nutrition Group at the School. I provide expertise in nutrition data curation (i.e., food composition, household surveys, etc.) and food matching for estimating micronutrient apparent intakes and supplies.
Some previous projects I worked on included the Micronutrient Action Policy Support (MAPS) project, funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which aimed to deliver a co-designed, web-hosted tool, to enable the best possible estimates of micronutrient deficiences to be communicated at national and sub-national scales in Africa. I was also part-time seconded to University of Nottingham working on the food composition data project with the FAO.
Affiliations
Teaching
I teach in the MSc Nutrition for Global Health. I also provide technical training on R for Food and Nutrition.
Research
My research expertise lies in agri-food and nutrition data curation, food matching and new analystical methods to improve the estimates micronutrient intakes and inadequacy risks. I am particularly interested in the use of open source data and spatial methods to improve dietary estimates of micronutrients and other nutritional outcomes. My PhD focused on using geospatial analysis to improve dietary intake estimates and using R and other open science tools (e.g., GitHub) for nutrition, some of examples can be found in my GitHub.
Selected Publications
