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Edward Fottrell

Ed Fottrell

PhD

Senior Research Associate


UCL Centre for International Health and Development
Institute of Child Health
30 Guilford Street
London WC1N 1EH

t: +44 (0)207 905 2203
f: +44 (0)207 404 2062
e.fottrell@ucl.ac.uk

Biography: Ed is an epidemiologist who, in close collaboration with partners BADAS, coordinates and provides technical support to a randomised controlled trial of participatory women’s groups to improve maternal and newborn health in rural areas of Bangladesh.

Ed also has experience of working in several Health and Demographic Surveillance Sites in Africa and his research interests include the development of methods for measuring cause-specific morbidity and mortality in resource-poor settings, verbal autopsies and the challenges particular to the measurement of maternal and neonatal health for public health action. Ed is also attached to the Umeå Centre for Global Health Research in Sweden

Publications

  • Byass P, K Kahn, E Fottrell, MA Collinson, SM Tollman SM (2010) Moving from data on deaths to public health policy in Agincourt, South Africa: approaches to analysing and understanding verbal autopsy findings. PLoS Medicine 7(8): e1000325.

  • Fottrell E, K Kahn, N Ng, B Sartorious, DL Huong, HV Minh, M Fantahun and P Byass (2010) Mortality measurement in transition: proof of principle for standardised multi-country comparisons. Tropical Medicine and International Health. 15(10):1256-65.

  • Fottrell E & P Byass (2010) Verbal Autopsy: Methods in Transition. Epidemiologic Reviews 32:38-55.

  • Fottrell E, L Kanhonou, S Goufodji, DP Béhague, T Marshall, V Patel, V Filippi (2010) Risk of depression following severe obstetric complications in Benin: the role of economics, physical health and spousal abuse. British Journal of Psychiatry 196:18-25.

  • Filippi V, S Goufodji, C Sismanidis, L Kanhonou, E Fottrell, C Ronsmans, E Alihonou, V Patel (2010) Effects of severe obstetric complications on women's health and infant mortality in Benin. Tropical Medicine and International Health 15(6):733-742.

  • Lemma H, P Byass, A Desta, A Bosman, G Constanzo, L Toma, E Fottrell, AC Marrast, Y Ambachew, A Getachew, N Mulure, A Morrone, A Bianchi, GA Barnabas (2010) Deploying artemetherlumefantrine with rapid testing in Ethiopian communities: impact on malaria morbidity, mortality and healthcare resources. Tropical Medicine and International Health 15(2):241-50.

  • Fottrell E, F Enquselassie and P Byass (2009) The distribution and effects of child mortality risk factors in Ethiopia: a comparison of estimates from DSS and DHS. Ethiopian Journal of Health Development 23(2):163-168.

  • Fottrell E, P Byass (2009) Identifying humanitarian crises in population surveillance field sites: simple procedures and ethical imperatives. Public Health 123(2): 151-5.

  • Fottrell E, O Campbell (2008) Clinical perceptions of infectious causes of maternal death PLoS Medicine 5:e44.

  • Fottrell E (2008) Dying to count: mortality surveillance methods in resource-poor settings. Global Health Action 2. DOI: 10.3402/gha.v2i0.1926

  • Adcock J, E Fottrell (2008) The North-South information highway: case studies of publication access among health researchers in resource-poor countries. Global Health Action 1.

  • Byass P, S Hounton, M Ouédraogo, H Somé, I Diallo, E Fottrell, A Emmelin, N Meda (2008) Direct data capture using hand-held computers in rural Burkina Faso: experiences, benefits and lessons learnt. Tropical Medicine and International Health 13:25-30.

  • Fottrell E, P Byass (2008) Population survey sampling methods in a rural African setting: measuring mortality. Population Health Metrics 6. [“Highly Accessed”]

  • Fottrell E, P Byass, Y Berhane (2008) Demonstrating the robustness of population surveillance data: implications of error rates on demographic and mortality estimates. BMC Medical Research Methodology 8.

  • Fottrell E, P Byass, TW Ouedraogo, C Tamini, A Gbangou, I Sombie, U Hogberg, KH Whitten, S Bhattacharya, T Desta, et al (2007) Revealing the burden of maternal mortality: a probabilistic model for determining pregnancy-related causes of death from verbal autopsies. Population Health Metrics 5. [“Highly Accessed”]

  • Byass P, E Fottrell, DL Huong, Y Berhane, PT Corrah, K Kahn, L Muhe, DD Van (2006) Refining a probabilistic model for interpreting verbal autopsy data. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 34:26-31.

  • Fantahun M, E Fottrell, Y Berhane, S Wall, U Högberg, P Byass (2006) Assessing a new approach to verbal autopsy interpretation in a rural Ethiopian community: the InterVA model. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation 84 (3):204-210.