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My main research interests can be divided into two main categories based on disease areas:

Within LASER I focus on the control and management of NTDs with a focus on West Africa but my research also includes broader areas of sub-Saharan Africa. My main research areas involve the design and implementation of large-scale methods and interventions to control, eliminate and eradication of NTDs. My work focuses mainly on Buruli ulcer, lymphatic filariasis, leprosy, scabies and yaws. These approaches involve multi-disciplinary approaches but my interest and contributions focus on:

- Developing and evaluating novel approaches for de-centralised and sustainable health care delivery.
- Design and management of large-scale data collection systems and real-time analytics in challenging settings.

Past activities have included the design and implementation of new integrated, community-based case finding and management for chronic skin-NTDs in Liberia in collaboration with the Ministry of Health NTD programme. Coordination of a cluster-randomised trial to eliminate soil-transmitted helminths in Malawi. Evaluation of mid-level healthcare worker training and survey methodology to assess burden and impact of scabies in urban settings in Liberia.

Currently I am co-principal investigator for UKAID funded project evaluating new case finding methods for patients with chronic lymphatic filariasis (LF) morbidity in Côte d'Ivoire to support certification of LF as elimination as a public health problem. This project focuses on new methods for community health worker- based case finding, clinical training methods and service provision and evaluation assessments to spatially map inequalities in service provision.

My other research interests based is based on the serology of Ebola virus disease and the use of population-level serology to predict areas at high-risk of disease spillover. I am currently research lead on a UKPHRST project investigating the potential application of non-invasive serological tools to identify previously unidentified Ebola virus infections and to use this data to predict spillover risk through its combination with high-resolution satellite imagery. This work stemmed from previous work using these same tools to retrospectively map past transmission chains at the index site of the 2013-16 West African Ebola virus outbreak and analysis of longitudinal B and T-cell responses from outbreak survivors in Guinea.

In my role with UKPHRST I am also part of the reserve deployable epidemiologist cadre. I have recently deployed to Cox's Bazar Bangladesh to support the response to a cholera outbreak in the Rohingya refugee camps at the end of 2019. Following this role I was re-deployed in March 2020 as epidemiology team lead for the Cox's Bazar office in support of the Sars-Cov-2 response among the host and refugee population.