Dr Chloe Brooks

Chloe Brooks joined Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) as a knowledge exchange specialist and post-doctoral researcher on the Institutional Funding for Research Culture Programme. The goal of the programme is to sustainably strengthen capacity in research management and knowledge exchange, working with four partner research institutes in Malawi, Kenya, Cameroon and Zimbabwe and, by doing so, rebalance some of the inequities that persist in partnerships between UK and African research institutes.

Before joining LSTM, Chloe completed a PhD in Health Policy at the University of Leeds. Her doctoral research explored the role of evidence in health policymaking and how it can be strengthened in low- and middle-income countries, using the case study of mental health policy agenda-setting in Assam, India.

She also holds an MSc in Global Health and Management from the University of Aberdeen, and a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford.

Alongside her academic career, Chloe also brings experience from working in policy and programming. She gained a place on UK's Department for International Development Graduate Development Scheme, jointly based across the Health Services Team and the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Team.

Additionally, Chloe has spent time teaching English at the University of Khartoum, in Sudan and in a change management role in the digital health sector.

Chloe is interested in how knowledge exchange can be strengthened to maximise the positive impact of research for beneficiaries.

 

Her research interests centre around understanding the role of research and evidence to inform health policy and decision-making processes and how this can be strengthened. She is particularly interested in the role of communities in evidence-informed policymaking processes.