Senior Climate Change Scientist (Co-benefits Research and Toolkits)
UKHSA
I work on issues at the intersection of public health and the environment, with a focus on climate change co-benefits and decision-support toolkits. I have a PhD in Human Geography Policy & Development from Northumbria University (Newcastle), during which I examined the emotional and cultural political ecologies of tackling zoonoses, through a critical discourse analysis of intergovernmental 'One Health' policies. I undertook ethnographic field research in Nagaland (a state in the sub-Himalayan, north-eastern region of India), studying formal and informal policies and practices relating to public, animal, and environmental health, as I explored how One Health manifests in national and sub-national settings.
I am curious about what really goes on when policies are made, with particular interests in climate change, zoonotic diseases, health equity, decolonisation of global health security, and connected human-animal (multispecies) interactions. I was previously an environmental lawyer practising before the High Court of Madras, and a senior policy analyst with an environment and ecology research body/think-tank based in India. I have a degree in Development Studies from the University of Oxford. I am a member of IUCN's Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (SULi).
