Undergraduate Staff
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Professor Anthony Costello
Anthony Costello is Professor of International Child Health and head of the Centre for International Health and Development at the UCL Institute of Child Health, and Director of the UCL Institute for Global Health. He has expertise in maternal and child health epidemiology and programmes in developing countries, and has contributed papers on health economics, health systems, child development, nutrition and infectious disease. He has published over 100 papers in international journals, including the Lancet, BMJ, Pediatrics, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, PLOS Medicine and Biomed Central journals. He has received award grants of over £20m including programme and project grants from the UK Department for International Development, the Wellcome Trust, Saving Newborn Lives Initiative, UBS Foundation, WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, the Big Lottery Fund and the Health Foundation. His areas of scientific expertise include the evaluation of community interventions on maternal and newborn mortality, women’s groups, the cost-effectiveness of interventions, community and social life saving treatments for maternal and newborn mortality in the poorest populations, nutritional supplementation and international overseas aid flows for maternal and child health. He has written a book ‘Improving Newborn Infant Health in Developing Countries’ which catalyzed a number of new international initiatives. He has been a consultant on field programmes for Save the Children Fund, the World Bank, the WHO, DFID, USAID, UNDP and Saving Newborn Lives. He is the founder and Executive Director of Women and Children First, a UK based NGO which has developed an international programme of support for programmes to improve maternal and child health in poor populations. He is an Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust and at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, UCLH Trust. Professor Costello is a co-tutor for the Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries module.
Dr. Maria Kett
Maria completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) in 2002. She is now the Assistant Director of the Leonard Cheshire Centre of Conflict Recovery (LCC), University College London. LCC is funded by Leonard Cheshire International (LCI), a rights-based NGO supporting the inclusion of disabled people in international development. Maria has been involved in a number of projects through the centre, most recently in Sierra Leone and Southern Sudan, and has a particular interest in disabled people in conflict and disaster affected countries. Maria is also currently chair of the International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC) Conflict and Emergencies Working Group. Maria coordinates the Conflict, Migration and Human Rights. module.
Dr. Ben Killingley
Ben trained at the University of Liverpool and after spending 2 years in Nottingham moved to London. He is an Infectious Diseases specialist registrar and is currently working in the microbiology department at the Royal Free Hospital. Ben co-tutors the module in Infectious Diseases in Developing Countries.
Dr. William Newsholme
Bill qualified from the Royal Free and did his general medical training in London. He also completed the DTM&H and a Masters in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He undertook speciality training in Infectious Diseases & Tropical medicine, including 3 years at UCLH Hospital for Tropical Diseases and is currently a Consultant in Infectious Diseases/Infection Control at Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust. Bill is the module coordinator for Infectious Disease in Developing Countries.
Dr. Audrey Prost
Audrey Prost is a medical anthropologist with special interests in South Asia and sexual health. She has worked among Tibetan refugee communities in Northwest India, where she carried out an ethnographic study examining the impact of medical pluralism and exile on health seeking behaviour. This work is the topic of her forthcoming book, Precious Pills: Medicine and Social Change among Tibetans in India, which will be published by Berghahn Press in 2008. After gaining a PhD from University College London in 2003, Audrey obtained an MRC Career Development Fellowship and developed interventions to increase the uptake of HIV testing among African communities in the UK. She is currently involved in two studies to reduce late diagnosis of HIV in this group and is developing research projects within CIHD. Audrey teaches the medical anthropology module and qualitative research methods. Audrey coordinates the iBSc Medical Anthropology module.
Mr. Mike Rowson
Mike is the Senior Teaching Fellow at the Centre for International Health and Development, and has taught the health, poverty and development module on the Intercalated BSc in International Health since the course began in 2001. From 1995 to 2005 he worked at global health charity Medact and from 2001 until he left was the organisation's executive director.
Dr. Jolene Skordis-Worrall
Jolene is a health economist with a particular interest in demand side behaviour and health financing. She has worked in all aspects of data collection from smaller ad-hoc commercial studies, to longitudinal social surveys; using qualitative and quantitative methods. Her applied research has focussed primarily on the economics of HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis including treatment seeking behaviour, the financial burden of service use and the economic evaluation of interventions. Her methodological interests include survey methods and the appropriate way to collect and analyse data from poorer countries. She is currently working on demand-side research in South Africa, Malawi and Nepal, exploring the links between treatment seeking behaviour and poverty. She is also involved in the economic evaluation of hospital audits to improve maternal and neonatal health in West Africa and an evaluation of women’s groups to improve maternal health in Malawi. Jolene coordinates the International Health Policy iBSc module.
Dr. Alex Van Tulleken
Alex gained his bachelors and medical degrees from Oxford University and his International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance from Fordham University. He has a Diploma in Tropical Medicine from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. In 2005, he worked in Darfur with Medecins du Monde and since returning to the UK he has continued his medical SHO training at King's Hospital. He has written a chapter on the challenges of humanitarian intervention in Kevin Cahill's latest book, due to be published later this year. Alex teaches on the Conflict, Migration and Human Rights module.
Dr. Bhanu Williams
Bhanu is currently working as a paediatric at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Her special interests are in infectious diseases and medical education. She gained her diploma of tropical medicine and hygiene from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 2002 and spent one year as acting head of paediatrics in the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital in Gambia. She has been co-ordinating and teaching the MCH course since 2004. Bhanu coordinates the Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries module.
Dr. Chris Willott
Chris graduated from the University of Liverpool with a BA and M.Phil in Politics. His M.Phil research examines the impact of national and global policy on poverty and environmental degradation in Mozambique. He went on to work as a writer and editor for the European Union HIV/AIDS programme in developing countries before moving to Nigeria to work as a lecturer in Political Science. He has recently completed a PhD at the University of Bath, which analyses public service delivery in Nigeria using an ethnographic methodology. Chris teaches on the Health, Poverty and Development and International Health Policy modules as well as co-ordinating the 2nd year SSC and 5th year undergraduate global health electives programme.
Mr Edson Araujo
Edson joined CHID in January 2010 as Teaching Fellow in Economics of Global Health. He graduated in economics from the Federal University of Bahia/Brazil and specialised in health economics at University of York/UK and at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh/UK. Before joining CIHD he worked for the Brazilian Ministry of Health, Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO) and taught health economics at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. His work has been mainly focused on health system analysis and financing (focusing on the effects of different forms of financing on the provision and access to health services), equity issues in health and health care, and the analysis of demand for health care coverage in two-tiered health systems. He has been teaching a variety of courses related to health economics, such as: health care financing, health inequalities, economic evaluation in health care, political economy of health and applied quantitative methods.
Dr. Rodney Reynolds
Rodney is a Teaching Fellow in Global Health and Anthropology. He completed a PhD in Anthropology from University College London with a thesis entitled "Unimagined Community: A pragmatics of nation and social unity in the Republic of Panama". His research interests include "Medical Anthropology as it intersects with Material and Visual Culture" "Belonging and Politics of Representation and Well-being" and "Anthropology of the Future". Rodney is currently involved in research that investigates barriers to cultural competency training for European physicians and in an initiative that uses technology led collaborative frameworks to encourage university and industry to address and solve future global problems.
Dr. Sarah Hawkes
Sexual health and rights (with a focus on South Asia); public health control of STIs; the use of evidence in policy-making Biography: Trained in sociology and medicine at UCL, and a PhD in epidemiology of STIs/RTIs in Bangladesh at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Sarah has lived and worked for most of the past 15 years in south Asia (Bangladesh, India and Pakistan), where she has focused on gathering evidence and building capacity for sexual health programmes. She works closely with national Governments (Pakistan, India, China) as well as with local and international NGOs in south Asia. With colleagues at the World Health Organisation, Sarah is responsible for the co-ordination of a global investment case to eliminate congenital syphilis. She has a particular interest in gender and sexual health, and is especially interested in understanding men's sexual health in south Asia.Ms Caroline Smith[CS: CS]
Biography: Trained in sociology and medicine at UCL, and a PhD in epidemiology of STIs/RTIs in Bangladesh at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Sarah has lived and worked for most of the past 15 years in south Asia (Bangladesh, India and Pakistan), where she has focused on gathering evidence and building capacity for sexual health programmes. She works closely with national Governments (Pakistan, India, China) as well as with local and international NGOs in south Asia. With colleagues at the World Health Organisation, Sarah is responsible for the co-ordination of a global investment case to eliminate congenital syphilis. She has a particular interest in gender and sexual health, and is especially interested in understanding men's sexual health in south Asia.
Caroline Smith
Caroline is the Teaching administrator of the iBSc and is here to assist with any queries students may have.
