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I am a mixed methods social scientist interested in evaluations of public health interventions.

I work on two intervention research projects:

The °®ÍþÄÌapp Hospital Opioid Substitution Therapy (iHOST) is an intervention that aims to improve hospital care for people who use opioids by removing barriers to opioid withdrawal management. This is an applied health research project in which we developed and are now evaluating an intervention, that aims to improve opioid substitution therapy in three acute hospitals in England. This is a mixed-methods study including a quasi-experimental quantitative study and a qualitative process evaluation.

The Learning Initiative on Norms, Exploitation, and Abuse (LINEA) is a preventative intervention that includes a curriculum and a radio drama, designed to shift social norms and behaviours that drive age-disparate transactional sex (ADTS) among 13 to 15-year-old girls and men in Mwanza, Tanzania. We are conducting a randomised controlled trial to assess the impact of the LINEA radio drama alone versus the radio drama combined with the curriculum.

I joined LSHTM at the end of 2016 as a Project Coordinator for several complex multi-partner national and international research grants. In this role, I supported data collection for school-based public health interventions. Drawing on this experience, I decided to move my career more fully into research. To make this transition, I was awarded a two-year NIHR Pre-Fellowship to develop my mixed methods research skills. As part of this fellowship, I pursued the MSc in Public Health at LSHTM 2020. I then worked as a Research Assistant for the Positive Choices Trial, focused primarily on managing the study's baseline survey across 50 schools in England. As of November 2022, I have split my time equally between iHOST and LINEA where I have since been promoted to Research Fellow.