Emily is a physician practising in Northwest London and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin. She completed her medical degree at Cambridge and Oxford Universities and studied Global Health as a Herchel Smith Scholar at Harvard University.

Emily worked for a year as an International Fellow in Tropical Medicine at the Menzies School of Health Research under the supervision of Professor Ric Price and Dr Rob Commons, and is currently leading the WWARN P. vivax Fever Study Group. This project aims to investigate the relationship between fever and P. vivax parasitaemia and how this varies with age and geographical location.