I graduated from Durham University in 1999 with a degree in Natural Sciences. I then taught in schools for 5 years in the UK and spent 2 years designing, running and evaluating education and health projects for Moya Centre, a community based NGO in Eswatini that supports children and adolescents affected by HIV/AIDS. In 2011 I completed an MSc (Distinction) at LSHTM in Reproductive and Sexual Health Research. My summer project explored sex education support needs for children affected by HIV/AIDS attending an NGO in central London. I went on to work at MSI Reproductive Choices as a mixed methods researcher, generating evidence to support the organisation's family planning and abortion programmes across Africa, Asia and Latin America. I completed my PhD at LSHTM in 2024 - the focus of my research was an MSI Reproductive Choices funded RCT and mixed-methods process evaluation of an intervention delivered by phone to women in Bangladesh to support post-menstrual regulation contraceptive use.
I am a module organiser and teach on the Online MSc in Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy and Programming.
I am a module organiser and teach on the Online MSc in Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy and Programming.
Affiliations
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Teaching
I co-organise two modules on the Online MSc in Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy and Programming: Safe Abortion Policy and Programming and Health Policy and Systems for Sexual and Reproductive Health and co-organised a short course on Safe Abortion Policy and Programming in Low- and Middle-income Countries. I support with other aspects of the delivery of the MSc, such as teaching, tutoring and evaluating the programme.
Research
My research interests are how best to increase access to high quality family planning and abortion services. Areas I have focused on include the use of mobile phones and call centres, community and pharmacy based approaches and intimate partner violence / reproductive coercion.
Selected Publications
2021
Studies in Family Planning
2019
Global Health: Science and Practice
2019
International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
2019
Global health, science and practice
2019
JMIR public health and surveillance
2019
JMIR public health and surveillance
Results of a randomized controlled trial and process evaluation of automated voice messages to support contraceptive use post-menstrual regulation in Bangladesh
2019
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists World Congress
Understanding the unintended consequences of mHealth. Experience of intimate partner violence within an intervention to increase contraceptive use in Bangladesh. International Conference on Family planning
2018
International Conference on Family Planning
Safety, quality and acceptability of task sharing contraceptive implants to Community Health Extension Workers: a non-inferiority quasi-experimental study in Kaduna and Ondo States, Nigeria
2018
International Conference on Family Planning
2018
JMIR Publications Inc.
