Katherine Henderson

Katherine Henderson
Contacts

katherine.henderson.11@ucl.ac.uk
Address
 Room W5.07
MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health
Institute of Child Health
London
WC1N 1EH
 PhD

Contribution of community-acquired, healthcare associated and hospital-acquired bloodstream infections in children admitted to NHS hospitals in England

Supervisors: Ruth Gilbert (UCL), Angie Wade (UCL), Berit Muller-Peabody (Health Protection Agency), Alan Johnson (Health Protection Agency)

My PhD aims to identify risk factors to distinguish between community-acquired (CA), healthcare-associated (HCA) and hospital-acquired (HA) bloodstream infections in children. National antimicrobial therapy guidance is based in the distinction between CA and HA infections but is not underpinned by national, evidence-based paediatric data.
To achieve my aim, I am linking 4-years of bloodstream stream infections from national microbiology data collected by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) and clinical Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) in-patient data. Using the results of the identified risk factors, I will report the proportional burden of each CA, HCA and HA category of infection, which is currently unknown in England. The findings will allow epidemiology surveillance teams to identify the group(s) of children in need of preventative interventions.

 Joined UCL  2011

Academic Background

2008 M.Sc. Control of Infectious Diseases
 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
 2007  B.A. Geography
  The University of Manchester
Linking HPA and Hospital Episode Statistics paediatric data: Methodology considerations

September 2012

Oral presentation, Health Protection Agency Conference

Prior to starting my part-time PhD at ICH, I began working (and continue to work) as an epidemiologist for the Health Protection Agency in the Department of Healthcare-associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance (HCAI & AMR).

I have predominantly worked on bacterial infectious diseases in the healthcare setting and I have also begun to gain experience of data linkage.

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