Dr Francesca Maraschin

Dr Francesca Maraschin is a Research Assistant in Primary and Community Care at the Department of Public Health & Primary Care. She also works as a clinician in paediatrics at The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust. Her work focuses on child health, and health systems strengthening in low-resource settings.

Francesca completed her medical training at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and went on to work for four years in public hospitals in Johannesburg, primarily in paediatrics and paediatric surgery. She subsequently obtained an MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford, where she also undertook an internship with the Global Health Systems Collaborative. During this time, she published work on the post-discharge care needs of neonates following neonatal surgery.

Francesca later joined Huma Analytics, a digital health company specialising in Remote Patient Monitoring, where she managed the organisation’s research portfolio and oversaw clinical safety. She has since returned to clinical practice and currently works as a Senior Clinical Fellow in paediatrics at the Whittington Hospital in London, alongside her research role in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge.

Francesca is passionate about improving outcomes for children, particularly in low-resource settings, and is committed to combining clinical care, research, and health system innovation to achieve this.