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Ms Kathy Baisley

Associate Professor

United Kingdom

I joined LSHTM in 2005, as a statistician at the Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit (MITU) in Tanzania. From 2015-2018, I was based at the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) in rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, as the senior statistician and head of the statistics group. I returned to London at the end of 2018, but have continued to collaborate with colleagues in Tanzania and South Africa. From January 2024, I will be based at AHRI again as the head of the Data Science Unit.

Before joining LSHTM, I spent seven years as a statistician in the pharmaceutical industry. I have an MSc in Epidemiology and an MSc in Statistics. My first degree is in Geology, and before studying epidemiology, I worked as a geophysicist.

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Teaching

I was the Programme Director of the MSc Medical Statistics from 2018-2023. I am a co-module organiser for Foundations of Medical Statistics, and Research Design and Analysis. I also teach on Introduction to Statistical Computing, and the Advanced Course in Epidemiological Analysis (ACEA) short course.

Research

I am a member of the International Statistics and Epidemiology Group in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology. Since joining LSHTM, my main research interest has been in the epidemiology of HIV, HPV and other sexually transmitted infections in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on the design and analysis of intervention trials.

I have been the senior statistician on a number of complex HIV prevention trials and HPV vaccine trials. I am the joint Principal Investigator on two large ongoing trials of single-dose HPV vaccination in Tanzania, one of which contributed to the evidence base for WHO’s recent recommendation that the HPV vaccine dose schedule be updated to allow countries to choose a 1-dose schedule. In addition to my research on HPV in Tanzania, I am a coinvestigator and lead statistician on a number of HIV treatment and prevention trials at AHRI, including a cluster-randomised trial to investigate network-delivered HIV self-testing, a stepped-wedge trial to evaluate a community-based biosocial HIV prevention intervention, and a stepped-wedge trial of a mobile phone-based intervention to help adolescents living with HIV transition to adult care.

Selected Publications

Direct estimates of absolute ventilation and estimated Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission risk in clinics in South Africa.
Beckwith, PG; Karat, AS; GOVENDER, I; Deol, AK; MCCREESH, N; Kielmann, K; BAISLEY, K; GRANT, AD; Yates, TA;
2022
PLOS Global Public Health
Immunogenicity and safety of one-dose human papillomavirus vaccine compared with two or three doses in Tanzanian girls (DoRIS): an open-label, randomised, non-inferiority trial.
WATSON-JONES, D; Changalucha, J; WHITWORTH, H; Pinto, L; Mutani, P; Indangasi, J; Kemp, T; Hashim, R; Kamala, B; Wiggins, R; Songoro, T; CONNOR, N; Mbwanji, G; Pavon, MA; Lowe, B; Mmbando, D; KAPIGA, S; MAYAUD, P; De SanJosé, S; Dillner, J; HAYES, RJ; Lacey, CJ; BAISLEY, K;
2022
The Lancet Global health
Estimating waiting times, patient flow, and waiting room occupancy density as part of tuberculosis infection prevention and control research in South African primary health care clinics.
Karat, AS; MCCREESH, N; BAISLEY, K; GOVENDER, I; Kallon, II; Kielmann, K; MacGregor, H; VASSALL, A; Yates, TA; GRANT, AD;
2022
PLOS Global Public Health
The association of exposure to DREAMS on sexually acquiring or transmitting HIV amongst adolescent girls and young women living in rural South Africa.
Mthiyane, N; BAISLEY, K; Chimbindi, N; Zuma, T; Okesola, N; Dreyer, J; Herbst, C; Smit, T; Danaviah, S; McGrath, N; Harling, G; Sherr, L; SEELEY, J; FLOYD, S; BIRDTHISTLE, I; Shahmanesh, M;
2022
AIDS (London, England)
Oral, genital and anal human papillomavirus infections among female sex workers in Ibadan, Nigeria.
Morhason-Bello, IO; BAISLEY, K; Pavon, MA; Adewole, IF; Bakare, RA; De Sanjosé, S; Francis, SC; WATSON-JONES, D;
2022
PL0S One
Isisekelo Sempilo study protocol for the effectiveness of HIV prevention embedded in sexual health with or without peer navigator support (Thetha Nami) to reduce prevalence of transmissible HIV amongst adolescents and young adults in rural KwaZulu-Natal: a 2 × 2 factorial randomised controlled trial.
Chidumwa, G; Chimbindi, N; Herbst, C; Okeselo, N; Dreyer, J; Zuma, T; Smith, T; Molina, J-M; Khoza, T; McGrath, N; SEELEY, J; Pillay, D; Tanser, F; Harling, G; Sherr, L; Copas, A; BAISLEY, K; Shahmanesh, M;
2022
BMC public health
Early HIV treatment and survival over six years of observation in the ANRS 12249 Treatment as Prevention Trial.
BAISLEY, K; Orne-Gliemann, J; Larmarange, J; Plazy, M; Collier, D; Dreyer, J; Mngomezulu, T; Herbst, K; Hanekom, W; Dabis, F; Siedner, MJ; Iwuji, C;
2022
HIV Medicine
Comparing one dose of HPV vaccine in girls aged 9-14 years in Tanzania (DoRIS) with one dose of HPV vaccine in historical cohorts: an immunobridging analysis of a randomised controlled trial.
BAISLEY, K; Kemp, TJ; Kreimer, AR; Basu, P; Changalucha, J; Hildesheim, A; Porras, C; WHITWORTH, H; Herrero, R; Lacey, CJ; Schiller, JT; Lucas, E; Mutani, P; Dillner, J; Indangasi, J; Muwonge, R; HAYES, RJ; Pinto, LA; WATSON-JONES, D;
2021
The Lancet Global health
Early impact of the DREAMS partnership on young women's knowledge of their HIV status: causal analysis of population-based surveys in Kenya and South Africa.
BIRDTHISTLE, I; CARTER, DJ; Mthiyane, NT; Orindi, BO; Muuo, S; Chimbindi, N; Ziraba, A; Shahmanesh, M; BAISLEY, K; FLOYD, S;
2021
Journal of epidemiology and community health
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