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I am an environmental health scientist with over 10 years experience at the intersection of enteric disease laboratory sciences and risk modeling within the food, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector. I completed my PhD in environmental health sciences at Emory University with USDA NIFA predoctoral funding, and hold an MS in microbiology and MPH in global health and infectious diseases.

As the 2023 Marshall Sherfield Fellow, I am completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the environmental health group at LSHTM working closely with Dr. Jackie Knee and colleagues. As part of the SaniVac trial, my work focuses on characterizing enteric pathogen exposures and identifying important environmental transmission pathways among young children within Mozambican households. Here, we leverage paired clinical and environmental samples and novel molecular biology tools to identify enteric pathogens. These data will be used in epidemiological and quantitative microbial risk assessment frameworks to identify how children in domestic settings are likely exposed to enteric pathogens by linking the pathogen data in the environment (hands, soil, surfaces, food, water) with exposure pathways and clinical data in children. Ultimately this work aims to inform the evidence-base for effective interventions and to improve child health.