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Ms Aoife Doyle

Associate Professor

United Kingdom

Aoife joined LSHTM in 2004 to lead the long-term impact evaluation of the MEMA kwa Vijana Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Intervention in Mwanza, Tanzania, and completed her PhD on this topic in 2010. Between 2010 and 2015 she held a MRC Population Health Scientist Post-doctoral Fellowship. Prior to joining LSHTM Aoife spent two years at the University of Aberdeen and two years as an EPIET fellow, based at Institut de Vielle Sanitaire, Paris where she contributed to infectious disease surveillance and participated in both national and international outbreak investigations.

Aoife is currently based full-time at The Health Research Unit (THRU ZIM) at Biomedical Research and Training Institute in Zimbabwe. She has lived and worked for two years in Mwanza, Tanzania (2007-8) and has experience working in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Sudan.

Affiliations

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

Centres

Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health

Teaching

Aoife co-organises a short course on Global Adolescent Health and teaches on Control of STIs (3192) and AIDS (3174) in-house modules. She is also a tutor for the Epidemiology of communicable diseases (EP301) distance learning module. Aoife supervises PhD and DrPH students in addition to MSc tutoring and project supervision.

Research

Aoife's research focuses on the health and wellbeing of adolescents and young people and she has a particular interest in the design of interventions and in appropriate methods for their evaluation. Her work addresses the broad health needs of adolescent populations including improving access to health services, the intersection between education and health, engagement of adolescents in the research process, and exploring the potential of digital interventions.

Aoife's current and recent research includes:

Y-Check: a WHO-coordinated multi-country study of adolescent health check-ups in LMICs. Funded through a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (2021-25), Aoife is leading the implementation and evaluation of this novel adolescent health and wellbeing check-up visit intervention in Zimbabwe.

External outcome evaluation of the Adolescents 360 intervention which aims to increase the use of modern contraceptives among 15-19 year old girls in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Nigeria

Study of technology and mobile phone use among adolescents in Zimbabwe focusing on the implications for digital health interventions

Crowdsourcing with adolescents in Senegal to address social norms limiting their access to sexual and reproductive health services

PRIDE randomised controlled trial of a low-intensity, lay counsellor-delivered, problem-solving intervention for common mental health problems in school-based adolescents in New Dehli, India

Selected Publications

Primary healthcare and school health service utilisation by adolescents and young adults in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
DOYLE, AM; Mchunu, L; Koole, O; Mthembu, S; Dlamini, S; Ngwenya, N; Ferguson, J; SEELEY, J;
2019
BMC Health Services Research
Challenges and opportunities in evaluating programmes incorporating human-centred design: lessons learnt from the evaluation of Adolescents 360
DOYLE, AM; Mulhern, E; Rosen, J; Appleford, G; Atchison, C; BOTTOMLEY, C; HARGREAVES, JR; Weinberger, M;
2019
Gates Open Research
Exploring adolescents and young people's candidacy for utilising health services in a rural district, South Africa.
Nkosi, B; SEELEY, J; Ngwenya, N; Mchunu, SL; Gumede, D; Ferguson, J; DOYLE, AM;
2019
BMC health services research
Sexuality, fertility and family planning characteristics of married women aged 15 to 19 years in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania: a comparative analysis of cross-sectional data.
Atchison, CJ; CRESSWELL, JA; KAPIGA, S; Nsanya, MK; Crawford, EE; Mussa, M; BOTTOMLEY, C; HARGREAVES, JR; DOYLE, AM;
2019
Reproductive health
Who are the male sexual partners of adolescent girls and young women? Comparative analysis of population data in three settings prior to DREAMS roll-out.
DOYLE, AM; FLOYD, S; BAISLEY, K; Orindi, B; Kwaro, D; Mthiyane, TN; Muuo, S; Shahmanesh, M; Ziraba, A; BIRDTHISTLE, I;
2018
PloS one
The sexual behaviour of adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa: patterns and trends from national surveys.
DOYLE, AM; Mavedzenge, SN; Plummer, ML; ROSS, DA;
2012
Tropical medicine & international health
Long-term biological and behavioural impact of an adolescent sexual health intervention in Tanzania: follow-up survey of the community-based MEMA kwa Vijana Trial.
DOYLE, AM; ROSS, DA; Maganja, K; BAISLEY, K; Masesa, C; Andreasen, A; Plummer, ML; Obasi, AI N; WEISS, HA; KAPIGA, S; WATSON-JONES, D; Changalucha, J; HAYES, RJ; MEMA kwa Vijana Trial Study Group,;
2010
PLoS medicine
Prevalence of hypertension and high-normal blood pressure among young adults in Zimbabwe: findings from a large, cross-sectional population-based survey.
SABAPATHY, K; Mwita, FC; Dauya, E; Bandason, T; SIMMS, V; DZIVA CHIKWARI, C; DOYLE, AM; Ross, D; SHAH, A; HAYES, RJ; Schutte, AE; KRANZER, K; FERRAND, RA;
2023
The Lancet. Child & adolescent health
The impact of community-based integrated HIV and sexual and reproductive health services for youth on population-level HIV viral load and sexually transmitted infections in Zimbabwe: protocol for the CHIEDZA cluster-randomised trial
DZIVA CHIKWARI, C; Dauya, E; Bandason, T; Tembo, M; Mavodza, C; SIMMS, V; MACKWORTH-YOUNG, CR S; Apollo, T; GRUNDY, C; WEISS, H; KRANZER, K; Mavimba, T; INDRAVUDH, P; DOYLE, A; Mugurungi, O; Machiha, A; BERNAYS, S; BUSZA, J; Madzima, B; TERRIS-PRESTHOLT, F; MCCARTHY, O; HAYES, R; Francis, S; FERRAND, R;
2023
Wellcome Open Res
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