I am an Associate Professor in Anthropology and Public Health in the Department of Global Health and Development. I focus on primary health care in pluralistic health systems and so work across public, private and voluntary sectors. Within these diverse settings, I return to the same set of questions about everyday practice and discourse: whose rules and values prevail; and how are these rules and values related to social networks, personhood and the formulation of ethical practice? 

I tend to work in teams of researchers and across a range of public health problems (HIV/AIDS, malaria and health systems). Long term research in Ugandan medicine markets has led to new concerns with the livelihood practices of unemployed nurses and doctors. More recent work in with colleagues in Enugu, Nigeria  has developed anti-corruption theory and I continue to be interested in the ways in which public health can learn from developments in theory and practice within international development. My research has been funded by MRC, FCDO, the Wellcome Trust and NIHR. 

I am the co-lead of the Anthroplogical Approaches to Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Development.

I am a member of the Health Systems Global Thematic Working Group on Action on Accountability and Anti-corruption for SDGs (TWG AAA), I am also a member of the Global Network for Anti-corruption, transparency and accountability in health. I sit on the Policy and Practice committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute.