Kristina is a health economist specializing in the methods of economic evaluation of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) interventions. Kristina is currently completing her PhD at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE), University of York. Most recently, she contributed to the Statistics, Modelling & Economics Department within the HCAI and AMR Division at the UK Health Security Agency. Her work there supported Theme 3 of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU): Behavioural and economic drivers of disease transmission and intervention policy effectiveness, including contributions to the Selecting Efficient Farm-level Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions from a One Health Perspective (SEFASI) project.

Prior to her work in AMR, Kristina was a Research Fellow in the Department of Medicine at the University of Otago (New Zealand), where she led several projects exploring healthcare access, quality, and related health outcomes. Her earlier academic background is in biomedical and bioinformatics research. She holds an MSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada), where her research focused on the analysis of next-generation sequencing data to study clonal evolution in cancer. She also worked at the Sino-Danish Breast Cancer Research Centre (University of Copenhagen), investigating mechanisms of drug resistance in breast cancer cells.

Her commitment with IMPACT AMR involves developing desk-based analysis of the AMR burden and intervention metrics, reviewing the literature to understand which metrics are already considered in the evidence base on the impact of AMR and its interventions. She is also supporting the design and implementation of the first workshop of Workstream 1 ‘Exploring transdisciplinary views on AMR impact metrics’

Outside of work, Kristina can usually be found in mountainous landscapes—running, climbing, or skiing. If you’re in the Peak District and up for a fell run, feel free to get in touch.