Background

Rachel is a Senior Research Fellow in Global Women’s and Newborn’s Health with experience in maternal and fetal health, specifically in the implementation studies in low- and middle-income countries.

Rachel has experience managing large pregnancy cohort studies including INTERBIO (University of Oxford) and the PRECISE Network (King’s College London).  These studies ran in a range of countries including Kenya, South Africa, Thailand, Brazil, Pakistan, Mozambique and The Gambia. Their focus was to better understand complications of pregnancy including hypertension, preterm birth, fetal growth restriction and stillbirth.

In addition to these pregnancy cohorts, Rachel has managed many other pregnancy studies at the University of Oxford including the use of AI in ultrasound, developing novel technologies for stillbirth detection and the impacts of COVID on pregnancy.

Qualifications

• 2003: BSc, University of York, United Kingdom

Appointments

• Research Manager, University of Oxford UK
• Research Associate, King’s College London, UK

Positions

• 2023 – current Senior Research Fellow, Global Women’s and Newborn Health, Burnet Institute
• 2018 – 2023 Global Health Research Manager, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, UK
• 2018 – 2023: Senior Programme Manager, PRECISE Network, King’s College London, UK
• 2017-2018: Project Manager, Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford, UK
• 2011-2017: Project Coordinator, INTERBIO-21st Study, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, UK 
• 2008 – 2011: Laboratory Manager, MalariaGEN Consortium, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, UK