Emmanuel is a health services researcher with expertise in epidemiology, health economics, administrative and electronic health record data and data science. He is a post-doctoral fellow in the University of South Australia investigating the health, social and economic consequences of child maltreatment and an infectious diseases epidemiologist within the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN).

Emmanuel is an accredited social worker (MSW 2002) with post-graduate training in public health at University of Sheffield and University of Copenhagen (Double MPH 2010) and University of Adelaide (PhD 2016). His health and human services research spans, maternal and neonatal health, oral health, dementia and aged care, cardiology and currently, infectious dieseas and childhood adversity.

Emmanuel has worked across all three universities in South Australia and SA Health, consequently having established collaborations across the health and social research sector in South Australia and beyond.