My research leverages training in internal medicine, epidemiology, tropical medicine and health services research to develop measurement tools and evidence-based interventions to improve health equity and human rights through clinical and population-based participatory research. For two decades I have partnered with community organizations in Myanmar to understand and address the double burden of infectious and chronic diseases among displaced, war-affected and post-conflict populations.
Select areas of work
Universal Health Care in post-conflict populations
Human resources for health in fragile and conflict-affected states
Epidemiology and control of malaria and artemisinin resistance
Epidemiology and control of cardiovascular disease and stroke and their risk factors
Inequities in cardiovascular risk factors and prediction tools to improve targeting of proven interventions among disadvantaged populations and people living with HIV/AIDS
Community health worker (CHW) interventions
Community-oriented primary care (COPC)
Refugee and Asylum Health (United States)
Homeless healthcare
Select Methods
Design and analysis of large cluster surveys
Simulation/modeling to estimate the impact on cardiovascular risk of community-based multiple intervention trials to reduce CVD disparities
Quantification of the health impacts of human rights violations
Health equity metrics and their application in distributional (equity-weighted) cost-effectiveness analysis
Mixed methods / formative research
Measuring quality of health services
Clinical epidemiology and clinical decision-making
Community based participatory research (CBPR)