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Sonia Lewycka
MSc PhD
Research Associate
UCL Centre for International Health and Development
Institute of Child Health
30 Guilford Street
London WC1N 1EH
t: +44 (0)207 905 2122
f: +44 (0)207 404 2062
s.lewycka@ich.ucl.ac.uk
Expertise:
Equity, equality and access to health care for rural populations;
Socio-economic determinants of health in
developing countries; development of population-based surveillance
systems for mother and child health outcomes; epidemiology of mother and
newborn health in rural African settings; community-based strategies to
reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Biography: With an undergraduate degree and masters in Natural Sciences, and a
masters degree in Epidemiology, Sonia worked as a volunteer in India for
an organisation rehabilitating people with addictions and for a school
for street children. She is now involved in developing research and
teaching collaborations in sub-Saharan Africa. She lives in Malawi,
working as a Technical Advisor to the MaiMwana Project – a
community-based maternal and neonatal survival project. She teaches
quantitative research methods at ICH and has recently completed her PhD on Reducing maternal and neonatal deaths in rural Malawi: Evaluating the impact of a community based women’s group intervention.
