CV

Education:

PhD Health Economics, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK - 2018 - 2023

• Titled: “Economic Shocks and Risky Sexual Behaviours”,

• Awarded the Bloomsbury Scholarship to study for a PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Birkbeck University,

• Thesis focuses on impact evaluation using quasi-experimental study design to ascertain the impact of economic shocks on risky sexual behaviours of vulnerable groups, mainly women engaging in transactional sex.

• Strong focus on secondary data analysis of household and individual surveys,

• Utilising insights from Behavioural Economics, Health Economics, Development Economics, causal inference, financial inclusion, risk, health insurance, climate change and climate adaptation,

• Expertise in survey design and data collection of sensitive behaviours (list randomisation) and through contribution to primary data collection in Senegal,

• Results have implications for policies surrounding HIV and policies to protect vulnerable populations from climate change and economic shocks,

• Developed strong quantitative data analysis, modelling, and technical writing skills. Enhanced and learnt new software and coding, including QGIS, Stata, LaTeX and R. The first chapter is published in The Journal of Development Effectiveness, and the second is under review at a top health economics journal,

• Thesis submission target March 2023.

University of Nottingham, UK - 2013 – 2014

• MSc. Economics and Development Economics (Merit)

University of York, UK - 2010 – 2013

• BSc. Economics (2:1)

Professional experience:

University College Lonon (UCL), UK  - July 2022 - Present

Research Fellow (post-doc):

• Leading the statistical and econometric analysis of the POWER health insurance for HIV prevention RCT in Cameroon, in addition to supporting the implementation and coordination of data quality checks.

• Writing academic papers surrounding the RCT for publication in top journals (lead and co-author) including analysis.

• Lead author on paper for the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Economics and Finance, see publications.

ITAD, UK - March 2022 - Present

1. Consultant econometrician GCRF

• • Advised and led the econometric and statistical analysis of the outcomes survey for the GCRF evaluation.

  • Presented insights to technical and non-technical audiences, including UK government departments. 

2. Family Planning Metrics Evaluator

• Supporting technical and evaluation leads of The Challenge Initiative (TCI) to technically advise host programmes in data quality and conduct robust econometric analysis.

• Preparing and conducting innovative synthetic control and interrupted time series analysis to evaluate the impact of highly effective interventions introduced across a 90 cities in 11 countries.

Macquarie University Sydney, Australia (remote) - May 2022 - September 2022

Consultant part-time

• Sought out to lead the generation of drought metrics from precipitation data and linking to multi-wave survey data.

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - September 2018 - September 2022

1. Research Fellow, Seminar Leader, Assignment Marker (2018 – 2022): 

• Seminar teaching and assignment marking for six MSc modules focused on health economics and health systems.

• Taught and contributed to the curriculum on MEL methods including ‘theory of change’ and process evaluation; and on econometric evaluation techniques including synthetic control, natural experiments, difference in difference instrumental variable, and interrupted time series methods.

• Co-supervised an MSc student’s summer project on cost-effectiveness analysis.

2. Research Fellow (January 2021): Adapted course materials for online teaching - Economic Analysis for Health Policy.

3. Research Assistant (part-time consultant six months):

• Lancet Global Health Commission: Responsible for designing, programming, data cleaning and quality control for a survey of primary health care financing in LMICs,

• RESPOND project: Responsible for secondary data cleaning and analysis from multi-year household surveys from the Philippines and Malaysia. Analysed data for publication.

Economic Development Initiatives (EDI) Ltd, UK / Tanzania - August 2016 – September 2018

Research Officer (formerly Assistant Research Officer):

• Responsible for managing large and small-scale data collection projects in International Development in Tanzania, including survey instrument design, training data collection teams and overseeing focus groups and other qualitative data collection. 

• Supervised teams Tanzania colleagues in all elements of projects including quality assurance to produce top-quality microeconomic cross-sectional and panel household, agricultural, health and firm surveys with a value of over $1m.

• Coded CAPI survey questionnaires (Surveybe and ODK), developed data cleaning code and quality checks on large amounts of data arriving from the field,

• Advised on the local context and technical requirements of conducting observational, monitoring and evaluation, and RCT study designs,

• Liased with local partners, community leaders and high-profile external clients, Tanzanian Government and Ministries to ensure projects ran smoothly through submission and adherence to all ethical requirements,

• Delivered high-quality datasets to clients including NORC at the University of Chicago, the World Bank, Results for Development (R4D) and USAID funded projects,

• Responsible for developing and training colleagues in new and transparent data quality methods, as well as designing and conducting training GIS methods for colleagues in the UK and Tanzania,

• Performed independent research resulting in co-authorship of a publication concerning data collection quality and techniques in LMICs published in The Journal of Development Studies.

King’s College London, UK - March 2015 – August 2016

Research Assistant – King’s Health Economics

• Contributed research assistance to several large-scale health economic projects,

• Responsible for cost-effectiveness analyses (including Markov models) and costing analyses,

• Drafted and edited data collection tools, protocols, papers and technical reports for publication,

• Co-authored an economic analysis of an RCT and first-authored a working paper including a costing analysis.

Funding Awards:

Early Career Catalyst Award in Population Health - £3600 - To develop fellowship applications in Uganda surrounding financial inclusion and women's economic empowerment.

Other Training and Responsibilities: 

2019-2021 – RD PHP Work-in-Progress organiser and student representative: As a research degree student (RD) Work-in-Progress seminar series organiser and student representative for our faculty (PHP), I was responsible for:

·        Arranging seminars for RD students to share work in a safe space where no questions are stupid questions,

·        Finding speakers and preparing them for their presentations,

·        Fostering collaboration and mentoring for students new to LSHTM.

November 2015 - Advanced Decision Modelling for Health Economics” at the University of Glasgow: Completed

October 2017 - National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Extramural Research: Protecting Human Research Participants course: Completed

Journal Referee: Journal of Development Studies, Health Policy and Planning.

Proficiencies and languages:

Software skills – Stata (proficient), R (intermediate), Python (beginner), ODK (proficient), Office package (proficient), LaTeX (intermediate), SQL (intermediate), Git (basic), QGIS (intermediate). 

Languages – English (native), French (Basic A2).

Countries of direct work experience: 

Tanzania, Senegal, Cameroon, Uganda, UK, Philippines, Malaysia.