Lizzie is a Public Health Principal at the London Borough of Newham and leads on Migrant Health and Tuberculosis. She has developed a whole system approach to improving the health and wellbeing of refugees and people seeking asylum in Newham. The response is informed by partnerships across the local authority and with NHS providers and local VCFS organizations. It is underpinned by research on the needs and lived experience of refugees and people seeking asylum. 

Lizzie is also the co-lead for the Association of Directors of Public Health Asylum Seeker and Refugee work stream. In that capacity Lizzie co-chairs a London Community of Practice – Health and Wellbeing of Asylum Seekers and Refugees which meets monthly to facilitate dialogue with stakeholders, share learnings and identify opportunities for enhanced collaboration around the health and wellbeing of these populations.

Prior to joining the London Borough of Newham in January 2020, Lizzie was Head of Translational Research at Muscular Dystrophy UK (MDUK) with specific responsibility for developing MDUK’s strategy to define, scope and deliver a MDUK-NIHR Translational Research Collaboration. Before MDUK, Lizzie worked for 8 years in a variety of public health consulting roles in Russia and India. This included work to improve the health and wellbeing of refugees and undocumented people. 

Lizzie was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in 2009 and earned her Master’s in Public Health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA.