Dr Tracey Smythe
• Associate Professor and Physiotherapist
• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Stellenbosch University
• International Centre for Evidence in Disability
Tracey is a physiotherapist with clinical experience developing, co-ordinating and delivering rehabilitation interventions and health worker training interventions in Australia, Brazil, countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the UK. She specialised in paediatric care, and her main work is with children with neurodevelopmental disorders and their families. Her research focus has been on the development of interventions to improve the quality of life of carers of children with multiple complex impairments, and in the design and analysis of before-after trials, cohort studies and cross sectional studies