Curriculum vitae
Curriculum vitae
I qualified in medicine in 2012 and completed foundation training in the East of England. I then completed core surgical training as an academic clinical training, after which I decided to re-focus my career on public health. As a bridge to switching careers, I completed a PhD at the Global Surgery Unit at the University of Birmingham. I then undertook public health medicine specialty training. I have trained across the NHS, local government, central government, and academia.
Associate Professor & Consultant in Public Health Medicine, University of Birmingham, UK.
Current academic roles
Pandemic preparedness lead - Health Protection Research Unit in Emergency Preparedness and Response.
Data and modelling lead - NIHR Unit on Global Surgery & NIHR Group on Environmentally Sustainable Hospitals in LMICs .
Academic co-lead - Sandwell Health Determinants Research Collaborations.
Posgraduate research committee - Department of Applied Health Sciences, University of Birmingham.
Total >200 papers (PubMed).
h-index of 50 (Google Scholar).
First author Lancet publications (PubMed).
Lead applicant
Evaluation of elective surgery hubs, funding by Evaluation Accelerator Fund - Cabinet Office (2025-26).
Co-applicant on >£30m research funding, including:
NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emergency Preparedness and Response (2025-30).
NIHR Group on Environmentally Sustainable Hospitals in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (link, 2024-28).
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children (link, 2024-28).
Sandwell Health Determinants Research Collaboration (link, 2024-28).
Coventry Health Determinants Research Collaboration (link, 2022-27).
The effect of Appendectomy on the Clinical Course of Ulcerative Colitis (link, 2019-23)
Reinforcement of Closure of Stoma Site Randomised Controlled Trial (link, 2016-18).
Named collaborator: