Linda joined the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2021 as the Senior Operations Lead for the newly established Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition. She brings a decade of experience working across the health and education sectors to improve the wellbeing of school children.

Prior to joining LSHTM, Linda worked with the World Bank in Washington, DC (2013-2021) where she focused on controlling neglected tropical diseases in the Africa region and strengthening cross-sector investments targeted to children as they mature. During her tenure, she supported the fiscal management of the African Program for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) and quadrupled the World Bank’s annual investments for neglected tropical diseases over a five-year period.

She also managed a multi-million dollar trust fund from the Global Partnership for Education to pilot coordinated delivery of school-based health and nutrition interventions. Building on this experience, she worked with the Global Financing Facility to strengthen the evidence around improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health, including through school-based interventions.

Linda coordinated the third edition of the World Bank’s Disease Control Priorities Child and Adolescent Health and Development Volume, which consolidates the evidence for investing across the first 21 years of life. This volume has been re-printed twice with the World Food Programme and with the Global Partnership for Education.

Linda has consulted for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Partnership for Child Development, the World Health Organization, and the United States Agency for International Development, among other institutions.