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Georgia Venner holds a Master in Public Health from the University of Alberta and is a PhD candidate at the LSHTM. Working in both academia and as an independent humanitarian consultant, Georgia focuses on using social science and interdisciplinary evidence to highlight the social and political dimensions of humanitarian crises. Her PhD research focuses on social dynamics, improvisations of care, and power dynamics of frontline healthcare workforces, including refugee health workers, when responding to infectious disease outbreaks in the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh.

Georgia is a global health consultant for the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub for their Learning Review of the System Innovation Partnerships (SIPs). She also serves as a Course Coordinator for an LSHTM-led capacity-building project for Ukrainian public health experts and students in Ukraine. She has recently contributed to a mixed-methods study exploring how to strengthen humanitarian learning in new and emerging crises with UKHIH and ALNAP. Previously she served as a social science Research Fellow at LSHTM for various projects spanning South Sudanese refugee health workers' experiences in Uganda, RCCE and Ebola in Sierra Leone, and COVID-19 in UK schools. She also worked as a Project Manager with a humanitarian INGO overseeing large-scale health programmes.