Research Degree Supervisors

Identify and contact a research degree supervisor at the Institute for Global Health.

There are three main ways to identify an appropriate supervisor to contact:

1. Browse the list of staff below within the Institute for Global Health and click on their name to view their staff profile on UCL’s Profiles

2. Look directly on UCL’s Profiles where you can search for relevant academic units and potential supervisors by keyword. Not all academics are listed but it is a good place to start.

3. Search our online research repository (UCL Discovery) where all UCL’s research papers are published, subject to approvals. If you identify a research paper that particularly interests you it is likely that one of the authors would be a suitable research supervisor.

Name	Area of expertise
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	HIV , HCV and influencza clinical epidemiology Causal inference in observational studies Personalised medicine SARS Cov2 Statistical analysis of cohort studies
Dr Heather Bailey	HIV and viral hepatitis Epidemiology of infections in pregnancy Vertical transmission and congenital infection
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
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
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
Dr Ana Correa Ossa	Health economics Policy evaluation Epidemiology
Professor Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri	HIV, HCV and influenza clinical epidemiology Causal inference in observational studies Personalised medicine
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
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
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
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
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
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
Professor Shabbar Jaffar	Prevention and management of diabetes and / or hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly intervention studies.
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
Ligia Kiss	Health services and systems Sociology Social Epidemiology Clinical and Health psychology
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 Rolando Leiva-Granados	Health and development economics Human capital formation Economics of healthy ageing Applied econometrics and impact evaluation of health and social interventions Technology adoption and worker’s well-being
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
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
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
Professor David Osrin	Gender-based violence Community mobilisation for health Urban health in low- and middle-income countries
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
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
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
Dr Kelly Rose-Clarke	Child and adolescent mental health in low- and middle-income countries Mental health intervention development and evaluation in low-resource settings School mental health Randomised controlled trials and qualitative research methods
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
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
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
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
Dr Luxsena Sukumaran	HIV research in the era of combination antiretroviral therapy Ageing with HIV: managing multimorbidity and polypharmacy Co-morbidities and integrated care approaches for people living with HIV Blood-borne virus (BBV) testing and screening
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