In early 2017, I completed my PhD at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London (UCL), under the supervision of Professor Andrew Steptoe. My PhD focus was on how stress and stress-related mental illness ‘gets under the skin’ and affects physical health. Since completing my PhD, I undertook a post-doctoral position at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) where I worked in collaboration with East London NHS Foundation Trust and Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group helping them use a large patient-linked dataset to understand the interface between mental and physical health conditions in order to inform commissioning decisions. 

My research interests concern the interface between mental and physical health, particularly relating to multimorbidity. I am interested in understanding and unpicking the clinical, behavioural, biological, and psychosocial factors related to mental and physical multimorbidity.