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Josefina Orliacq

Orliacq JosefinaDPhil Population Health, 2020

Hi! I am Josefina, a DPhil student in Population Health. I currently work at NDPH, studying the associations between fats in our diet and liver disease. I am super interested in understanding how our habits are related to different diseases, and I think studying diet is fascinating. I also have experience in infectious disease prevention and control, and I hold an MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology from Oxford. I studied Medicine in Buenos Aires, at Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina.
I enjoy rowing and learning new languages. Feel free to email me or contact me on LinkedIn.

Contact: josefina.orliacq@gtc.ox.ac.uk

DPhil Population Health 2021Elise Racine

I joined GTC in October 2021 as a DPhil candidate in Population Health, a Clarendon Scholar, and a recipients of the Baillie Gifford-Institute for Ethics in AI Scholarship. I am affiliated with Oxford’s Ethox Centre, Institute for Ethics in AI, and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities.

Having just moved back to the UK from Berlin, I hold a Master of Public Administration with a concentration in digitalisation and big data from the Hertie School, a Master of Science with Distinction in Health and International Development from the London School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Sociology from Stanford University.

My research centres around the societal impacts, policy implications, and fundamental rights challenges of emerging technologies within global health—including biometrics, artificial intelligence, mHealth applications, and distributed ledger technology. I am excited to be continuing this work at Oxford where I will be studying the ethics of infectious disease surveillance technologies. My professional background spans the non-profit, public health, and private (think tank, consulting) sectors.

In my spare time, I enjoy traveling, scuba diving, art, reading, running, rowing, and watching sports. I look forward to pursuing these passions at GTC and Oxford!

Contact: elise.racine@gtc.ox.ac.uk

Scholastica ZakayoDPhil Population Health
2020

Scholar holds an MSc in International Health & Tropical Medicine from the University of Oxford and a BA in Anthropology from Moi University in Kenya. She is keen on promoting the value of social sciences in contributing to global health and in particular, in relation to improving access to and quality of maternal health care.

As part of the wider project, ‘Fakes, Fabrications and Falsehoods? Interrogating the social, ethical and political features of pseudo-global health’, Scholar will investigate how frontline healthcare workers assess medicine quality, what contextual factors influence their ability to distinguish genuine from fake or degraded products, their perceptions and challenges, including what informs their decisions and actions, especially in resource-constrained settings.

Photo PamelagongoraDPhil Population Health
2020

I am a health economist from Colombia, mainly interested in strategies or policies aiming at improving population health. I hold an MSc in Economic Policy from UCL and an MSc (Hons) in Social Policy and Planning from LSE. In the past, I worked as an advisor to the Health Minister of Colombia. I have also worked as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank and as lecturer in Health economics and Welfare analysis & measurement for undergraduate students.

My research interests are related to priority-setting in health care and evaluation of integrated health interventions.

Contact: pamela.gongora@dph.ox.ac.uk

Frances Butcher, Green Templeton College student profileDPhil Population Health
2019

I’m a public health registrar (junior doctor) undertaking a DPhil in Population Health at the Ethox Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health. This will be exploring ethical dimensions of global health security and is supported by a Wellcome Trust Fellowship for Health Professionals. Prior to this I studied medicine at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, with an intercalated degree at King’s College London in Medical Ethics and Law.

I completed the Academic Foundation Programme for junior doctors at North Bristol NHS Trust and the University of Bristol between 2013 and 2015, before taking a year out of clinical practice to pursue research interests. In this year I undertook an MA in Bioethics and Society with a focus on the ethics of genomic research, and a job as a research worker in perinatal mental health, both at King’s College London.

Since starting public health specialty training in Oxford in 2016, I have completed an MSc in Global Health Science at the University of Oxford and worked at the University of Oxford, Oxfordshire County Council, NHS England and Public Health England. I am a winner of the 2018 Next Gen for Biosecurity Competition, alongside colleagues from Uganda and Argentina, and a 2019 Fellow on the John Hopkins Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity scheme.

DPhil Population Health
2019

I graduated from studying medicine at the University of Cambridge in 2012 and am currently training as a Clinical Oncology Registrar at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford. My DPhil involves projects aiming to estimate the benefits and risks of different types of adjuvant radiotherapy for early breast cancer. I am working under the supervision of Associate Professor Carolyn Taylor, Dr Frances Duane and Dr Georgios Ntentas at the Nuffield Department of Population Health.