Biography
I was born in London, United Kingdom and moved to Perth, Western Australia shortly afterward, where I spent most of my childhood. As a child and teenager I was very interested in music and performance, and loved to sing. I taught myself piano because I wanted to play songs I'd heard in video games.
In university I spent several years in Medicine, and completed two other degrees alongside it: A Bachelor of Arts (majoring in English Literature) and a Bachelor of Medical Sciences - a clinical research degree where I researched the relationship between bacteria and preterm birth. This was where I found a love of research and quantitative methods.
I eventually left Medicine, after realising I was not truly passionate about it, and completed a Master of Public Health, focussing on health economics. I liked the idea you could could make normative cases that could improve the lives of many. My research thesis was about health economics and diagnostic tests, and the use of checklists in reviews of health economic evaluations.
After my MPH I did an internship at WHO/HQ in Geneva, and spent many years consulting for WHO. I helped to build noncommunicable disease models for globally mandated work, and for country-specific use cases, with a particular focus on cancer. During this time, I also had a brief stint at Deloitte Access Economics, but left to pursue a PhD in Public Health, where I looked at the relationship between people who study public health, and people who work in it.
During this time, I learnt VBA, Python, Javascript and Typescript.
After my PhD, I decided to focus on the building of mathematical models, and started the company Forecast Health Australia. We worked with WHO, building models for cancer, and contributing to several country cases and global reports. We also developed a protocol for the rapid development and implementation of markov models, and simple ways to embed these models in web apps. Kind of like ShinyApps for R, but more catered towards health. In 2025, I founded Forecast Health International in the US.
I'm an avid user of AI and follow these developments very closely. I currently use Claude Code, o1-pro, OpenRouter and Cursor. This is constantly changing.
Goals for my work
I would like to do the following things
- Lower the barrier to create models
- Increase the transparency of models
- Create tools to help others do their work