Experience

Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies

• Switzerland
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Scientific Collaborator

  • Oct 2022 - Present

  Project: https://humanitarianstudies.ch/research-0/senselet-project/ Staff profile: https://humanitarianstudies.ch/team/rachel-cassidy/ Email: rachel.cassidy@unige.ch • Joined the Geneva Centre in October 2022 as a Researcher for the SENSELET Project. • A three-year project funded by Novo-Nordisk, Kühne Foundation and World Diabetes Foundation, in collaboration with Addis Ababa University. • The project aims to sustainably improve healthcare supply chain management in Ethiopia by supporting and building local and humanitarian response capacity. • Leading the complexity science stream of work with focus on enhancing humanitarian response capacity within healthcare supply chains in Ethiopia. • Member of the co-ordination team for the SYSTAC (Systems Thinking Accelerator) European Hub which is supported and funded by the WHO Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (https://humanitarianstudies.ch/systac-european-hub/) Show less



London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Fellow

  • Jun 2018 - Jan 2022

  Project: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/cosmic Staff profile: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/cassidy.rachel Email: rachel.cassidy@lshtm.ac.uk • COSMIC project, led the causal loop diagrams and system dynamics modelling stream of work, to investigate the health system response to results-based financing programmes. • 4.5 year research grant funded by the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, and the Department for International Development’s Health Systems Research Initiative. • Seminar leader and exam marker for MSc Public Health modules Issues in Public Health (2018-2019) and Basic Statistics for Public Health (2019-2020, 2020-2021). • Primary supervisor for MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing summer project entitled ‘How Have Causal Loop Diagrams Been Used To Model or Evaluate Health System Reforms?’ (2021-2022). • Primary supervisor for MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing summer project entitled ‘Modelling Health Worker Motivation in Community-level Health Facilities in Ethiopia: A Case Study Using Causal Analysis Methodology’ (2018-2019). • Co-developed and piloted teaching materials for students on the MSc Public Health, Health Systems module, ‘Application of systems thinking in health system research: pilot teaching session’. • Co-developed teaching materials as part of a health policy and systems research training programme for practitioners in the Western Pacific Region, ‘Application of systems thinking in health system research: teaching session’. Show less



Imperial College London

• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Oct 2017 - Jun 2018

  • Using C++ to adapt a previously developed model to simulate the HIV epidemic in Kenya, specific focus on the expected burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in this population. • To conduct analysis examining the projected disease and co-morbidity burden over time in distinct gender and age groups. • Using C++ to adapt a previously developed model to simulate the HIV epidemic in Kenya, specific focus on the expected burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in this population. • To conduct analysis examining the projected disease and co-morbidity burden over time in distinct gender and age groups.