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Jenny Saxton
BSc MSc
PhD Student
UCL Centre for International Health and Development
Institute of Child Health
30 Guilford Street
London WC1N 1EH
t: +44 (0)207 905 2299
f: +44 (0)207 404 2062
j.saxton@ich.ucl.ac.uk
Expertise: Public-health interventions to promote child growth in
low and middle income countries
Biography: Jenny is a PhD student on the MRC DTA programme and has
been registered with the CIHD since October 2009. She is evaluating a community
mobilisation intervention (with women’s groups) to test for differences in child
growth outcomes between intervention and comparison groups. This work is being
undertaken in Jharkhand and Orissa, India, in collaboration with Ekjut, one of
CIHD’s partner organisations.
In 2008 Jenny
completed three placements as part of her studentship: a CIHD-based review of
breastfeeding assessment tools for use in high burden settings, included in the
MAMI report, data analysis
from the Ukrainian Post-natal Cohort Study of HIV-infected Childbearing Women at
the MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, and a qualitative
project exploring health-provider perspectives on emergency contraception
provision at four London clinics with the UCL Research Department of Infection
and Population Health. Jenny previously worked as a research assistant in
childhood obesity in the UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
(2006-2008). Jenny has a BSc in Psychology (Newcastle University, 2003) and an
MSc in Health Psychology (Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh,
2005).
