Rosie Steege is a health systems researcher with expertise in community based participatory research, gender, equity and intersectionality. She leads and contributes to the design, development, and delivery of social science themes within large multi-partner, multi-disciplinary research consortia. Rosie is currently the Equity Lead for GEAR up consortium, supporting mainstreaming of gender and equity into antimicrobial resistance surveillance, working across diverse country contexts. She was also a co-investigator on the £13 million Global Challenges Research Fund funded ARISE consortium supporting equity and accountability for residents of urban informal settlements in Bangladesh, India, Kenya and Sierra Leone.

Rosie is a confident facilitator and communicator. She has won awards for presentations at international conferences and published in journals such as the Lancet and Social Science and Medicine. She has also undertaken consultancies, including for the World Health Organisation and has previous experience in the private healthcare communications sector, where she managed accounts of up to $1million for an international global healthcare communications network.