I am a paediatric infectious diseases registrar and an Academic Clinical Lecturer based at St. George's University, London. My clinical and academic areas of interest are congenital infections, neglected tropical diseases, health inequalities and migrant health.
I currently divide my time between clinical training and research at St. George's where my focus is on migrant health and the use of large administrative healthcare datasets to study infectious diseases in this population; and at LSHTM as Assistant Professor in the Health Equity Action Lab (Infectious Disease Epidemiology), where I primarily work on the LIFE Zika study in collaboration 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 currently divide my time between clinical training and research at St. George's where my focus is on migrant health and the use of large administrative healthcare datasets to study infectious diseases in this population; and at LSHTM as Assistant Professor in the Health Equity Action Lab (Infectious Disease Epidemiology), where I primarily work on the LIFE Zika study in collaboration 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.
Affiliations
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Teaching
I teach on the Global Health MSc and MBChB courses at St. George's, the adolescent health MSc course at UCL and have supervised MSc students at LSHTM. I am currently supervising an MRC-LID PhD student.
Research
After working on Peruvian Bartonellosis during my MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health (LSHTM, 2010), I was drawn to return to Latin America and carried out my PhD in Brazil, studying the perinatal outcomes of a Zika pregnancy cohort in the state of Sao Paulo (USP, 2015-19). 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. Alongside this, I have a strong interest in participatory research, and I am working with the Migrant Health Research Group at St. George's to create a sustainable community-led migrant health network of individuals with lived experience of migration.
Research Area
Epidemiology
Paediatrics
Clinical research
Disease and Health Conditions
Zika
Region
Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)
Selected Publications
2024
The Lancet. Child & adolescent health
2024
Wellcome open research
2024
Int J Hyg Environ Health
2024
The Lancet. Global health
2022
BMJ paediatrics open
2022
Archives of disease in childhood
2022
Frontiers in immunology
2022
BMJ Global Health
2022
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
2021
BMJ global health
