London, England, United Kingdom
Despite starting off my academic career in clinical medical training, completing an intercalated Bachelor's degree in Medical Sciences with Mathematics, Computers and Medicine from UCL, I increasingly realised my passion within healthcare was investigating what happened before the patient arrived at the clinic. I shifted my focus to public health, completing an MPhil in Population Health Sciences at the University of Cambridge, and now undertaking an MA in Sociology at the Birkbeck College. Alongside this, I am currently an epidemiologist on the fourth round of the British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-4), supporting and leading a number of analyses on key topics in national sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Under the mentorship of Professors Cath Mercer and Graham Hart, and Drs Elise Paul and Fiona Mapp, I am: - Engaging in a bespoke programme of mixed methods training and participatory research methods across Oxford University, Stanford University and Imperial College London; - Leading a mixed methods project on the sexual and reproductive health of trans/gender diverse participants in the fourth round of the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-4), including interview transcription, complex survey analysis and designing a mixed methods analytical strategy.
Under the supervision of Professors Cath Mercer and Pam Sonnenberg, I am: - Leading the analysis of the primary methodological and results outputs of Natsal-4, co-ordinating all primary analyses relating to behaviour and identity; - Managing four datasets corresponding to more than 19,000 participants and 10,000 variables in STATA & R; - Leading bespoke analyses to inform the Department of Health and Social Care’s Men’s Health Strategy and NHS England’s LGBT+ Health Evidence Review.
Independent consultant for a number of WHO consulting contract across a wide range of sexual and reproductive health and rights disciplines. Including: - Leading a systematic review into the values and preferences of providers and patients of gender affirming surgical and psychosocial care, presenting findings at the global WHO guideline development meeting for Transgender and gender diverse patient populations and publishing as co-first author - Supporting a systematic review into the values and preferences of providers of and patients receiving doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP) to inform the WHO guideline on doxyPEP
Under the supervision of Dr Bashar Hassan and Dr Fan Liang, I will be supporting and leading research projects addressing critical knowledge gaps in medical and surgical topics regarding TGE and non-binary care.
Under the supervision of Drs Robert Pralat and Anna Wiedemann, I am responsible for running literature reviews for the TIMELY project, which focuses on creating new early identification and prevention service and establish what digital tools are needed to make early detection work effectively, safely, and fairly within the children’s UK mental health services, CAMHS.
Under the supervision of Dr Lianne Gonsalves and Åsa Nihlén, throughout the summer I: • Co-designed a systematic review investigating the language use and rationales reported within empirical literature on elective genital surgeries for intersex infants, leading all stages of the review; • Led the programming of a global-standardised survey on sexual and reproductive health (SHAPE) into RedCap and XLS Webform in the global coordination team for the CoTSIS study, and actively engaged in development of the final questionnaire, incorporating qualitative feedback from international study sites, working alongside Dr Erin Hunter and Dr Vanessa Brizuela; • Supported a systematic review on trans and gender-diverse patient population access to care as second-reviewer art all stages of the review, working alongside Anna Coates; • Analysed and synthesised qualitative responses from experts in the field on their views of sexual and reproductive health priorities across the life course; • Delivered a seminar on LGBTIQ+-inclusive education to the Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research alongside Dr Asa Radix;