She is a health systems researcher specialized in global health. Her main areas of research include improving quality of care in resource-poor settings, particularly for women and infants; the processes and outcomes of policy implementation at the global and national levels; and incorporating health system information into quantitative methodologies, to develop more nuanced and relevant results for constrained systems. She has participated in research across many countries in Africa and Asia, including Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania.