London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Rachel is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow and Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, researching the impacts of global environmental change on infectious disease risk. She is a member of the management committee for the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health and vector-borne disease theme leader for the Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases. She obtained a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Exeter. Her thesis concerned spatio-temporal modelling of climate-sensitive disease risk, with a focus on early warning systems for dengue in Brazil. She held postdoctoral positions at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, and the Catalan Institute for Climate Sciences (IC3) in Barcelona, Spain, working at the interface of climate prediction science and public health decision-making.