Dr Chloe Brooks

Research-to-Policy Post-Doctoral Researcher

Chloe joined LSTM as a knowledge exchange specialist and post-doctoral researcher on the Institutional Funding for Research Culture (IFRC) Programme. IFRC's goal 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 from the University of Leeds. Chloe's 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.

Chloe 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. Chloe gained a place on UK's Department for International Development (DFID) Graduate Development Scheme, jointly based across the Health Services Team and the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Team.

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

Selected publications

  • Brooks, C., Mirzoev, T., Chowdhury, D., Deuri, S.P., and Madill, A. (2023). Using evidence in mental health policy agenda-setting in low- and middle-income countries: a conceptual meta-framework from a scoping umbrella review. Health Policy and Planning, 38(7): 876-893. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czad038.

    Brooks, C., D'Ambruoso, L., Kazimierczak, K., Ngobeni, S., Twine, R. Tollman, S., Kahn, K., and Byass, P. (2017) Introducing visual participatory methods to develop local knowledge on HIV in rural South Africa. BMJ Global Health, 2(3), p.e000231. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000231.