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 worked across the NHS, local government, central government, and academia.
Associate Professor, University of Birmingham, UK.
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Department of Health & Social Care.
Current academic roles
Deputy Director - NIHR Group on Environmentally Sustainable Hospitals in LMICs & NIHR Programme on Developing Environmentally Sustainable Operating Theatres
Pandemic preparedness lead - Health Protection Research Unit in Emergency Preparedness and Response.
Academic co-lead - Sandwell Health Determinants Research Collaborations.
Postgraduate researcher committee - Department of Applied Health Sciences, University of Birmingham. This involves chairing annual PhD student review meetings.
Public Health Lead for integrated clinical academic training (ACFs/ACLs) - University of Birmingham.
Total >200 papers (PubMed).
h-index of 53 (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. Current live funding:
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).
Developing environmentally sustainable operating theatres (link, 2023-27)
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children (link, 2024-28).
Sandwell Health Determinants Research Collaboration (link, 2024-28).
Previous funding: