Professor Ibrahim Abubakar - Epidemiology and control of infectious diseases including tuberculosis, hepatitides, HIV, and co-infections particularly among vulnerable populations
- Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of interventions against infectious diseases particularly through latent and active tuberculosis clinical trials
- Migration and health
| Dr Alejandro Arenas-Pinto - Treatment of HIV disease and its complications
- Risk factors and management of end-organ disease in HIV
- Systemic inflammation and immune activation associated with HIV infection
- Mitochondrial dysfunction in HIV positive individuals
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Dr Heather Bailey - HIV and viral hepatitis
- Epidemiology of infections in pregnancy
- Vertical transmission and congenital infection
| Dr Neha Batura - Economic evaluation alongside complex public health trials
- Health and development inequalities
- Measurement of multidimensional well-being
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Dr Rochelle Burgess - Global Mental health in low and middle income countries with an emphasis on interventions in Africa and Latin America
- Mental health in special populations - including minority groups (including LGBTQI+), Violence (symbolic, structural, inter-generational), child marriage
- Community based approaches to understanding health and health services
- Power, Agency and social justice in global health
- Innovative qualitative and participatory research methods in global health
| Professor Fiona Burns - Social, behavioural and clinical dimensions of HIV/STI epidemiology
- Migration and health
- Health care access, engagement and social inequalities
- HIV care pathways
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Dr Valentina Cambiano - Statistical analysis of cohort studies
- Mathematical modelling of HIV epidemics, using an individual-based stochastic dynamic model of HIV transmission, progression and the effect of antiretroviral therapy
- Sexual behaviour and HIV prevention and testing
- Health economic analyses
| Professor Tim Colbourn - Community-based child health (especially pneumonia) interventions in Africa
- Maternal, newborn and child health facility quality improvement methods and systems research
- Epidemiological, health systems and health economic modelling for improving uses of limited resources
- Impact, process and economic evaluation methods
Please note that Dr Colbourn currently has commitments supervising 7 PhD students so has very limited capacity to accept new PhD students at this time. |
Professor Andrew Copas - Design and conduct of clinical trials, especially cluster randomised trials in global health
- Statistical methods applied to trials in global health
- Methods to deal with bias from missing data, participant selection and reporting bias, in particular in sexual behaviour surveys
| Professor Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri - HIV, HCV and influenza clinical epidemiology
- Causal inference in observational studies
- Personalised medicine
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Dr Delanjathan Devakumar - Migration and child and adolescent health, in particular in relation to labour migration, forced migration from conflict and left-behind populations
- Conflict, violence and mental health of children and adolescents
- Early life nutrition and later health outcomes (developmental origins of health and disease)
- Advocacy and child rights
| Professor David Dunn - HIV prevention (particularly pre-exposure prophylaxis)
- HIV drug resistance
- Pragmatic randomised controlled trials
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Dr Liz Fearon - Social networks, both as facilitators of infectious disease transmission and as means for intervention design and delivery
- HIV and STIs, particularly among gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men and among female sex workers
- Research methodologies for working with marginalised and minoritized populations
- Testing and contact tracing interventions, epidemic response
- Methods in infectious disease epidemiology, evaluation, transmission dynamics and surveillance, including working interdisciplinarity.
| Professor Nigel Field - Infectious disease molecular epidemiology
- Early life gut microbiota and impacts on child health
- Population-based studies to understand and improve sexual health
- STI transmission and control
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Professor Edward Fottrell - Health in low- and middle-income countries
- Social and behavioural community intervention development, implementation and evaluation
- Morbidity, all-cause and cause-specific mortality measurement in resource-poor settings
- mHealth
| Dr Jennie Gamlin - Gender and global health -in particular gender and violence/masculinites and violence
- Medical Anthropology and critical social science perspectives on global health
- Marginalised and indigenous populations in Latin America
- Reproductive and maternal health
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Dr Jo Gibbs - Sexual health and HIV
- Online clinical care pathways for infectious diseases, from diagnostics through to management & surveillance
- Development and evaluation of complex digital interventions
- Legal & regulatory issues surrounding online clinical care
| Professor Richard Gilson - Clinical trials in HIV and other STIs
- HIV and hepatitis-coinfection cohort studies
- Prevention and treatment of hepatitis C
- Prevention and treatment of HPV infection
- HPV-related anal cancer prevention
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Dr Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli - Economic evaluation of public health interventions (in particular, Diabetes; Maternal & child health; Injuries; HIV & Sexual and Reproductive Health; TB; and Nutrition & Early childhood development
- Inequalities in health and health care utilisation
- Technical efficiency of health care providers and health systems
- Health care financing and provider payments
| Dr Guy Harling - Social networks
- HIV prevention
- Caregiving and care receipt
- Survey implementation quality & methodology in sub-Saharan Africa
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Professor Sarah Hawkes - Politics and power in the link between evidence and health policy, particularly for non-communicable diseases
- Applying a gender lens to processes of policy-level decision-making in global health organisations
- Health and human rights in relation to sexual health and gender
| Professor Therese Hesketh - Public Health/health systems in China
- Vulnerable children, including child abuse, left behind children
- Public health aspects of anti-microbial resistance
- Elderly care and dementia
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Professor Zelee Hill - Community based newborn, child health and development interventions in low income settings
- Quality improvement initiatives
- Behaviour change
- Qualitative research including formative research and process evaluations
| Dr Rebecca Irons - Critical Medical Anthropology and Ethnographic perspectives on Global Health
- Reproductive and Sexual Health - focus on family planning and HIV
- Marginalised and Indigenous populations in Latin America
- Migration and Health
- Gender and Global Health
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Professor Ilan Kelman - Health impacts of climate change and dealing with climate change
- Health impacts of disasters and disaster risk reduction
- Arctic global health
- Island studies and global health
- Health diplomacy and medical diplomacy
| Dr Frank Kloprogge - Personalised medicine
- Infectious diseases
- Clinical Pharmacology
- Pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic modelling
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Dr Fiona Lampe - Trends in prognosis and outcomes of HIV
- Impact of demographic, socioeconomic and psychosocial factors in HIV and other disease outcomes
- Mental health and quality of life in HIV and other chronic diseases
- Trends and predictors of sexual behaviour among groups at risk of HIV and STIs
- Questionnaire-assessed measures of health
| Dr Aurelia Lepine - Impact evaluation of public health interventions using quasi-experimental designs
- Study of risky health behaviours of vulnerable women in low-income countries using field experiments and lab-experiments
- Measurement of sensitive behaviours in surveys
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Dr Jenevieve Mannell - Primary prevention of gender-based violence in high-incidence contexts
- Qualitative and participatory methodologies for global health research
- Agency and violence against women
- Community dynamics and existing capacity in LMIC
- Afghanistan, Peru, Rwanda, South Africa
| Professor Cath Mercer - Quantitative methods for researching sexual behaviour
- Sexual behaviour across the lifecourse in the general population as well as particular groups, e.g. MSM, ethnic minority groups
- Sexual function and well-being
- Access to, and use of, sexual health services
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Professor Robert Miller - HIV/TB
- Pneumocystis infection
- Opportunistic infections in HIV
| Dr Joanna Morrison - Formative and process evaluation research within randomised controlled trials
- Participatory action research and public engagement
- Health systems and community-based research in low and middle-income countries, with a particular interest in maternal health and nutrition, adolescent health, and type 2 diabetes
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Dr Emily Nicholls - Experiences of HIV care, testing and prevention
- Experiences of healthcare professionals delivering care
- Qualitative and sociological approaches to digital health
- Health activism
| Professor David Osrin - Gender-based violence
- Community mobilisation for health
- Urban health in low- and middle-income countries
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Professor Sarah Pett - Complications of HIV
- Influenza
- HCV
- Novel diagnostic platforms
| Professor Andrew Phillips - Individual based simulation models, particularly in the context of sub Saharan Africa
- Modelling HIV risk, prevention, diagnosis and treatment
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Professor Kholoud Porter - Design and analyses of longitudinal cohorts
- Primary HIV infection
- HIV continuum of care
- Long-term outcomes of treated and untreated HIV infection
- Heart failure in low and middle-income countries
| Professor Audrey Prost - Community mobilisation for women’s, children’s and young people’s health, with a focus on South Asia
- Pragmatic randomised controlled trials
- Qualitative and participatory research methods in global health
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Dr Stephen Roberts - Critical global health security
- Global health politics and government
- Pandemic preparedness
- Surveillance studies and global health
| Professor Alison Rodger - HIV testing including self testing
- Co-infections with HIV (TB, viral hepatitis)
- HIV prevention - TasP and PrEP
- Global health
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Professor Caroline Sabin - Studies of HIV in the era of combination antiretroviral therapy
- Ageing and HIV infection
- Co-morbidities and adverse drug reactions in people living with HIV
| Dr Andrew Seal - Epidemiology of malnutrition in emergency affected populations
- Optimisation of food assistance
- Diagnosis and management of acute malnutrition
- Approaches to human resource development and capacity building in the humanitarian sector
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Professor Maryam Shahmanesh - HIV prevention amongst adolescents and young people in southern Africa
- Sexual health amongst adolescents and young adults in southern Africa
- Sex Work
- Developing and evaluating complex interventions (differentiated prevention and pragmatic/adaptive trials)
| Professor Lorraine Sherr - Psychological and Behavioural aspects of HIV, especially in women, children and low resource settings
- Family and Children - early child development interventions, parenting, fatherhood, Violence and children
- Mental health - burden, resilience - interventions, measurement
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Professor Jolene Skordis - Multidimensional poverty and antipoverty transfer programmes
- Gender empowerment, social networks and social capital
- Addressing health inequalities
- Fiscal space for sustainable and scalable programme delivery
- Technical and allocative efficiency in health service delivery
| Dr Colette Smith - Statistical analysis of cohort studies, with a focus on HIV and infectious diseases
- Methodological issues in the analyses of observational datasets
- Impact of gender, socio-economic and other inequalities on the outcomes of people living with HIV and other chronic diseases
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Professor Pam Sonnenberg - Infectious disease epidemiology - TB, HIV and STIs
- Population-based sexual health surveys
- Population impact of HPV vaccination
- Molecular epidemiology
- eHealth - online clinical pathways and mobile diagnostics
| Dr Oliver Stirrup - Statistical analysis of longitudinal biomarker and time-to-event data
- Modelling of HIV incidence and diagnosis delays
- HIV drug resistance
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Dr Shema Tariq - The health and well-being of women living with HIV from adolescence to older age
- Qualitative research methods in public health research
- Mixed-methods public health research, including integrated analysis of quantitative and qualitative research
- Promotion of inclusion of marginalised groups in public health research, including co-production of knowledge
| Dr Ian Williams - Safety and efficacy of antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection
- Treatment strategies for HIV infection
- Antiretroviral therapy virological failure and drug resistance
- HIV infection: AIDS and non-AIDS comorbidities
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