Her research has been in the area of air pollution and environmental health risk assessments with a special focus on low and middle income countries.
Her doctorate considered the role of sulfhydral reagents in the regulation and modulation of cyclic nucleotide-gated channels.
[1] She performed occupational and population level environmental assessments, developed solutions and made recommendations for policy changes.
[1] She uses mother-child cohort studies and randomised controlled trials to examine the effectiveness of air pollution interventions on early childhood and cardiovascular outcomes.
Her research revealed that exposure to fine particulate matter caused lower birthweights in newborn babies, and advocated for a shift to LPG as a fuel.