Dr Shobhana Nagraj

Dr Shobhana (Shobi) Nagraj is an Assistant Professor of Primary & Community Care in the Department of Public Health & Primary Care. She works in partnership with the East London NHS Foundation Trust in the fields of Health Systems research and Implementation Science, with a focus on life course approaches to improving maternal child health. She is a co-theme lead for global health on the MPhil in Population Health Sciences.

Shobi has worked closely with rural communities and Community Health Care Workers (CHWs) in low-resource settings globally. She is passionate about delivering high-quality, universal health services to women and children, that meet the needs of the communities and end-users. Her research focuses on the use of theory in the design, implementation and evaluation of complex interventions (including mobile technologies) to support the healthcare workforce in low-resource settings. She is interested in how complex innovations can be designed to facilitate implementation and sustainability within the health system and the communities they serve.