Lana is a postdoctoral research associate at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, working in the GCRF Accountability and Responsiveness in Informal Settlements for Equity (ARISE) hub. Lana's doctoral research (University of Cambridge, 2017) examined the realisation of the right to food in India and specifically focussed on India's school lunch programme, the Midday Meal Scheme. Lana previously worked as a research associate in the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester on an impact evaluation of a livelihood intervention in Nepal.