Rachel Archer works in the capacity of a Project Associate at HITAP. Her work focuses on health system strengthening and supporting evidence-informed policy making in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), predominantly in Indonesia, Kenya and Thailand. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Sheffield and a Bachelor of Arts in International Development from the University of Leeds. Rachel was awarded the Carpenter Prize for Best Masters Thesis where she investigating the high prevalence of teenage pregnancy in Luwero, Uganda using an intersectionality approach. She is a published author in multiple peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals and coeditor of the recently published ‘Non-Communicable Disease Prevention: Best Buys, Wasted Buys and Contestable Buys’