Selected work

Haiti campaign design and organizational learning

I led a four-year research partnership with The Carter Center and Haiti’s health ministry through Emory’s Human Engagement Learning Platform to strengthen disease-elimination campaigns.

I combined research on stakeholder experience with coverage and geographic data to develop recommendations with campaign teams. I co-developed a blueprint for adaptive management and organizational learning, with methods for turning community experience into operational priorities and testing changes to delivery.

Child survival and antibiotic resistance

At the Task Force for Global Health’s Focus Area for Compassion and Ethics (FACE), I co-led qualitative research on how to weigh the child-survival benefits of mass antibiotic treatment against the risk of antimicrobial resistance. I co-developed a proposal for researchers and public-health decision-makers to examine their disagreements and use deliberation to guide program decisions and future research.

Global vaccine allocation

I co-led qualitative research on how commercial decisions and institutional constraints shaped global access to COVID-19 vaccines. We identified opportunities to improve access through product-development and procurement decisions, and clearer responsibility for deciding who should receive limited supplies.

Informed consent in mass treatment

I led analyses of WHO guidance and the research literature on informed consent in mass treatment campaigns. I examined where programs leave treatment teams without clear instructions on explaining risks or respecting refusal, and how pressure to meet coverage targets can compromise informed choice.

WHO guidance for treatment teams

I developed communication guidance and field tools to help treatment teams understand people’s concerns and discuss participation in disease-elimination campaigns. This included adapting motivational-interviewing techniques for drug distributors and contributing to a World Health Organization toolkit for reaching people never treated in previous campaigns.

Campaign workflows and decision support

With Crosscut and Balcony, I co-developed planning workflows and decision-support prototypes for public-health campaigns. I translated field-program requirements into supply-planning tools, refined with campaign leadership. We designed a model to connect resource allocation with field communications so teams could adapt in real time during a campaign.

Evaluating campaign effectiveness

With UNICEF colleagues, I co-developed a framework for evaluating campaign effectiveness beyond coverage targets, considering how campaigns work in practice and what they contribute to health systems. We developed criteria for choosing measures that could guide campaign decisions and support learning between countries. The Health Campaign Effectiveness Coalition’s strategy references this work.

Product design for health apps

I contributed to product design for EU DECIDO, helping women experiencing abuse in Brazil assess their safety and develop personalized plans for seeking support. The app adapts research-based decision support to people’s circumstances and available local services.

I also contributed to WoW: World of Women, which makes clinician-reviewed health education available through videos in Telugu, Hindi, and English. It covers reproductive health and everyday health concerns, with explanations people can explore at their own pace.

Gene-drive dialogue

I co-produced a filmed brokered dialogue on gene-drive governance in Africa. I helped develop the interviews and narrative through which participants could question one another’s positions on who should decide how these technologies are used.

Care after intimate partner violence

I designed and led qualitative research on survivors’ experiences of care. In related work, I investigated why survivors fail to connect with community services after leaving hospital. We identified gaps in referral practices and opportunities for direct handoffs between hospital staff and community providers.

COVID-19 vaccine communication

I co-led qualitative research for the CDC-funded COVIED project, examining the narratives people used to explain avoiding COVID-19 vaccination. I developed communication strategies informed by those accounts and consumer psychology. The work informed guidance for health-center care teams on responding to concerns about risk and distrust without reinforcing people’s sense of being pressured.