Luxsena is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Health at UCL and has worked with the NIHR HPRU in Blood Borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections since 2024. Her work uses epidemiological methods and large-scale health data to understand complex health needs and evaluate how services can improve outcomes for people affected by HIV and other blood-borne viruses.
She currently leads the public health evaluation of NHS England’s Emergency Department opt-out blood-borne virus testing programme. Working across national healthcare and surveillance datasets, she examines testing uptake, diagnoses, linkage to care and differences in programme delivery across hospitals, with the aim of producing evidence that can inform policy.
Luxsena completed her PhD in Epidemiology and Statistics at UCL, exploring how physical and mental health conditions cluster and change over time among people living with HIV. Her research examined the determinants and consequences of multimorbidity and considered how these findings could support more person-centred approaches to clinical care and healthy ageing. Her wider research interests include ageing, multimorbidity, sexual health, health inequalities, and translating population health research into policy and practice.
