I am a Public Health Physician with 25 years of experience in multi-methods research at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, and subsequently Imperial College. I am an honorary consultant in Public Health Medicine with the London Strategic Health Authority and the Health Protection Agency. I work both internationally and in the UK. Over the last 10 years I have directed two Research Programmes on HIV and Development funded by the UK Department for international Development. In the UK I have recently completed three studies of health and social wellbeing in Black and Minority Ethnic Communities and migrant populations funded by Local Authorities, and the Medical Research Council as well as a number of studies in mental health services research.

I was appointed as the Director of IHHD in March 2006. My current objectives are to build the Institute’s profile as a major international research and intervention centre focusing on understanding the social economic and cultural determinants of health and wellbeing, and the use of social and economic and cultural approaches to enhance population health and wellbeing.

• Public Health
• Epidemiology
• Social Science
• Health Services Research

Research areas

• health, well-being and regeneration
• wellbeing and globalisation
• health and international development
• HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted disease
• community participation in research
• Health Services research