Charlotte is an Assistant Professor in Global Risk and Resilience at the University of Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk with a focus on Health Security.
Charlotte’s current primary research interests center around the convergence of risks under conditions of increasing global fragility and how this creates increased epidemic and pandemic risk with a specific interest in tipping points of health threats in fragile environments characterised by disasters from natural hazards, humanitarian emergencies, and environmental degradation and created by global challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss but also violence and political instability.
She completed her PhD in 2019 in the Health Protection Research Unit for Emergency Preparedness and Response in the UK and field epidemiology training with the European Centre for Disease Control in Finland. Having worked across academia, national and international public health agencies, policy, and the UN system, she has been involved in public health emergency response, epidemic intelligence, and research in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Sub-Saharan Africa.