Consultancy & Policy Engagement

  • Technical Advisor, Preparedness 2.0, WHO European Regional Office

  • Member & Rapporteur, IHR Review Committee regarding amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005)

  • Member, European Union, Expert Group on COVID & Gender Inequality.

  • Co-Creator, Gender & COVID-19 Working Group

  • Member, UK Government Cabinet Office National Security Risk Assessment, Vulnerable Persons Working Group

  • Member, WHO Universal Health and Preparedness Review Technical Advisory Group (UHPR-TAG) (2021-23)

  • WHO Technical Consultation on digitalization of the International certificate for vaccination and prophylaxis (September 2021)

  • Monti Commission: Support in drafting evidence review document (with Martin McKee)

  • ICAI Review on UK spending on COVID-19: Drafting annotated bibliography on evidence of COVID-19’s impact on humanitarian settings

  • WHO Health Emergencies Programme – Gender Working Group: conversations and review of work in progress

  • UK Parliament Women and Equalities Committee : provided written evidence for committee enquiry

  • UK Parliament: Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy: provided written evidence for committee enquiry

  • UK Parliament: Foreign Affairs Committee: provided written and oral evidence for committee enquiry on global health security

  • European parliament: gender advisor for impact of COVID-19 on women across Europe. Verbal advice and author of key policy report documenting the gendered impacts of COVID across Europe for use by parliamentarians

  • UK Government Gender Equalities Office: consultation early on in COVID-19 to understand potential areas of inequalities which may appear to strengthen policy guidance and approaches taken.

  • UK Labour Party: Review of reforms to United Nations: provided written and oral evidence for committee enquiry

  • UN Women: drafting of UN Women’s Spotlight paper on the impact of COVID-19 on gender equality and the SDGs.

  • Public Health England: Consultation on how to scale up crowd-sourced influenza surveillance and self-testing for COVID-19.

  • Wellcome Trust, August 2016, Making the case for economic investment in Global Health Security

  • Asian Development Bank, Consultant, May 2013, Consultant on IHR Implementation Best Practice APSED targeting and Cross Border Collaboration in Cambodia, Laos PDR and Vietnam

  • European Influenza Vaccine Consortium : consultation for how to use crowd-sourced influenza data for vaccine content deliberations.