Emma Radovich

Emma Radovich is a Research Fellow in the Department of Health Services Research and Policy within the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She has been at LSHTM since 2014-15, initially joining to complete her MSc in Demography & Health, and has progressed through roles from Research Assistant to her current position as Research Fellow.

Her educational background includes a PhD in Epidemiology and Population Health from LSHTM (completed in 2024), an MSc in Demography & Health from LSHTM (2014-2015), and a BA in History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley (2004-2008).

As a mixed-methods researcher, Dr. Radovich specializes in evaluations of complex interventions, with particular expertise in realist evaluation approaches to examine healthcare service design and quality improvement interventions. Her research primarily focuses on maternal health services, especially in Southern Asia, with significant work in Nepal, India, Nigeria, Egypt, and the United Kingdom. She has led studies on measuring and improving care coverage and quality in maternal health services, including an exploratory study in Nepal on maternity service hygiene infrastructure and facility design funded by the LSHTM Health and Hygiene Seed Grant 2023.

Her recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on electronic decision support systems to improve antenatal care quality in South Asia, with multiple studies examining implementation, impact on workflow, and effects on care quality. She has also conducted significant work using Demographic and Health Surveys to analyze maternal healthcare utilization and quality across multiple countries.

• LSHTM Health and Hygiene Seed Grant 2023 for "Hygiene preparedness of maternity services: lessons from routine screening tests in Nepal"
• 2019-20 Doctoral Project Travelling Scholarship for "Impact of an Electronic Decision Support System on workflow in antenatal care"
• MRC-funded research on "A cluster randomized trial of an mHealth integrated model of hypertension diabltes & antenatal care in primary care settings in India & Nepal"

Dr. Radovich is actively involved in teaching and supervision at LSHTM. She is co-module organiser for PHM219 Evaluation of Public Health Interventions (distance learning) and supervises MSc summer projects for both intensive and distance learning students. Previously, she has taught on Health Systems, Basic Epidemiology, Statistics for Epidemiology and Population Health, and Analysing Survey and Population Data courses. She has also coached PhD and MSc students on DHS data analysis at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp.

She is a member of the Maternal and Newborn Health Group (MNHG) and the Centre for Evaluation at LSHTM, and is currently part of the NIHR Policy Innovation and Evaluation Policy Research Unit (PIRU), where she evaluates UK public health interventions and the implementation of health and social care services.