I am an Emeritus Professor at ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø and the former Director of the Institute of Global Health and Development and a full member of the Institute for Global Health and Development Research Centre, having joined ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø as Director of the Institute of International Health and Development in July 2015.
I have worked in the field of global health and ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍøment for over twenty-five years, after originally training in psychology at the universities of Keele, Wales and Birmingham in the UK. I was formerly Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Malawi, Director of the Centre for International Health Studies at ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø, and Senior Research Manager for the UK Department for International Development, with responsibility for the agency's global portfolio of health and education research. I have international experience as a lecturer, researcher and consultant across sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia, Europe and North America, working with a range of intergovernmental, non-governmental and governmental agencies.
I am active in five major areas of research: the evaluation of humanitarian programming (particularly with regard to protection and psychosocial support of refugee children); health systems resilience in contexts of crisis (through work in northern Nigeria and the Middle East); the engagement of local faith communities in humanitarian response (in collaboration with World Vision, Islamic Relief, the Lutheran World Federation and the JLI); the adjustment and well-being of humanitarian workers (in collaboration with the Antares Foundation); and health research capacity strengthening.
