Denise is a social epidemiologist, who has spent the past 5 years working in East Africa.

As a Research Fellow for BRAC she supports integrating participatory approaches into evaluation and research to facilitate engagement from beneficiaries. In this capacity she supported a RCT addressing the intra-household effects of the MasterCard Foundation Scholarship for academically talented but economically disadvantaged secondary students in Uganda. She has collaborated with the Qatar Foundation, co-authoring a paper addressing the underlying factors associated with failure of students to transition or dropout of secondary school in Uganda and Bangladesh. Most recently, she’s using a mixed-methods evaluation strategy on the long-term impact community health promoters (CHPs) have in Uganda.