Gisela is assisting the Public Policy Programme on standardising public health data. She is a Senior Researcher on the Global Burden of Disease at the University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Medicine, where she focus on estimating the relative risk of infections resistant to antibiotics. She collaborated with the Lancet Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries (NCDIs) Poverty Commission, the Oxford Clinical Trials Service Unit and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
