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For my LSHTM MSc dissertation project I was based in Yangon and Hpa-An in Karen State, Myanmar, working with an international charity. My research focused on community views around mechanisms of providing feedback on local healthcare provision, and how these mechanisms might be improved. An integral part of the project involved training local staff to run semi-structured interviews and focus groups. I used qualitative analysis to construct a plan to inform policy and practice around using relevant and viable feedback mechanisms in the field. These mechanisms were piloted in Karen State.

From April 2017 until December 2018 I was lead researcher on a qualitative research project examining how policymaker perceptions of antimicrobial resistance drive behaviour and policies for appropriate antimicrobial use in Pakistan. This involved running in-depth interviews in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad with policy makers, doctors, veterinarians, pharmaceutical industry professionals, among others, analysing data and writing manuscripts for publication. I taught a CME accredited course at Aga Khan University (AKU) in Karachi on Writing for Journals to over 45 members of AKU staff.

I have worked on a project examining how to synthesise evidence from other sectors to strengthen health system responses to mass displacement, with a focus on supporting Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, and also on a policy and stakeholder analysis to inform advocacy on drowning reduction among fishing communities in Southern Lake Victoria, Tanzania, funded by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in the UK (both with Associate Professor Natasha Howard).

I was also a research assistant on a project evaluating how actors from the alcohol industry used the recent Drink Free Days campaign (with Associate Professor Ben Hawkins).

From May to July 2020 I worked as a researcher on a project for WHO: 'Leaving no one behind: Mapping of social and economic policy responses to COVID, their health equity impact and the role of economic incentives in shaping corporate and individual behaviour.'

From July 2020 to July 2021 I worked on a project examining drivers of and framing around antimicrobial resistance in Tanzania, with Associate Professor Helena Legido-Quigley.

Until September 2024 I was a Research Fellow working on a project examining biosecurity issues around the potential spread of African Swine Fever in Cambodia (with Associate Professor James Rudge).

I am usually based between the UK and Kathmandu, Nepal, and work closely with the Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital, the main referral hospital for infectious disease in Nepal.

My PhD was titled 'Drivers of Zoonoses Spillover in Nepal: Community Priorities', with a stellar supervisory team: Associate Professor Natasha Howard (LSHTM/National University of Singapore), Associate Professor James Rudge (LSHTM/Mahidol University, Thailand), Professor Steve Belmain (Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich), and Professor Nanda Bahadur Singh (Vice-Chancellor, Midwestern University, Surkhet, Nepal).