Biography

Johanna is currently a Research Fellow at the United Nations University - International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) working in the new Gender and Health Hub. Prior to this position Johanna worked as a consultant for UNU-IIGH on a gender-based project focusing on the community health workforce in Niger, Mozambique and Zambia. She also completed a consultancy with the African Women’s Development Fund, mapping the scale and key gendered concerns of non-communicable diseases and their effect on women across Africa. Johanna has led research on digital technologies and infectious disease outbreaks and prior to this served as the Policy Director for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health based in London. Johanna has also worked as Lead of Information Management for the National Chlamydia Screening Programme, UK. She holds a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Cambridge funded by the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Birmingham.