Tanya Abramsky BA MSc

Research Fellow in Epidemiology

Having gained my first degree in Human Sciences from Oxford, I came to LSHTM to do the MSc Epidemiology in 2002-3. I rejoined the School in September 2004 as a Research Fellow on the Young Lives Project, a longitudinal survey of childhood poverty in 4 developing countries. I am currently working within the Gender Violence and Health Centre on several projects relating to violence against women.

Affiliation

Teaching

I co-organise the Basic Epidemiology linear unit in the first term, and have also facilitated on several other study units: Statistics for EPH; the Design and Analysis of Epidemiological Studies; Critical Readings in Epidemiology; Environmental Epidemiology (DL).

I am also a personal tutor on the MSc Epidemiology.

Research

I am currently working on two intervention studies relating to the prevention of intimate partner violence: I am performing analyses of data from the IMAGE study, a randomised control trial to evaluate the effect of a microfinance-based poverty alleviation and empowerment strategy on levels of domestic violence and HIV; I have also been involved in the design of the SASA! Study, another CRT evaluating the effect of a community mobilisation intervention on HIV and violence against women in Kampala, Uganda.

I am also analysing data from the WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence. Data was collected from 24,000 women in 10 countries in order to estimate the prevalence of different types of violence against women, explore consequences of IPV for health, identify risk-factors and protective factors for IPV, and document strategies and services that women use to cope with IPV.

Research areas

  • Child health
  • Complex interventions
  • Health inequalities

Disciplines

  • Epidemiology

Other interests

  • Gender Based Violence
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