I studied medicine at Oxford and did my junior doctor training in London. During this time, I realised that I enjoyed the aspects of medicine that focused on the more strategic and more data driven approaches to health care, making public health a natural specialty to pursue. During my time in public health, I have worked in local government, the NHS, at nation guidance organisation such as NICE. I also did extensive work in health protection both at the local and national level during the COVID-19 pandemic.

I currently work as a consultant epidemiologist at the UK Health Security Agency, the UK’s national organisation responsible for the control of infectious diseases, where I lead on COVID-19. This includes the routine surveillance aspects, incident investigation and management, health inequalities and vaccine effectiveness.