An economist, she is currently Director of the Global Observatory on Long-Term Care and Deputy Director of the Centre for Care Policy and Evaluation at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Early in her career, she worked on projections of future expenditure on long-term care alongside Raphael Wittenberg and other colleagues at the LSE, which provided a very useful perspective from which to analyse care systems, suggesting improvements to future projections and how care could be enhanced.
She has been co-director of the Strengthening Responses to Dementia (STRiDE) programme, which sought to build capacity to generate policy-relevant research in Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico and South Africa.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, she led the development of the LTCcovid.org website, which helped to share real-time evidence and data on how the pandemic was affecting people who use and provide long-term care internationally.
She is currently working on a project on maximising the impact of research as part of the Research Unit on Social Care Policy for Adults, and is a member of the Research Unit on Dementia and Neurodegeneration Policy (Exeter). She continues to provide consultancy on long-term care policy and funding.
His recent research has included a project analysing what lessons the social care sector in England can learn from other countries’ experiences of COVID-19, and STRiDE England, a project aiming to generate evidence to strengthen the response to dementia and reduce inequalities in access to care, treatment and support.