Karen Edmond MBBS MMSc MPHTM PhD FRCPCH FAFPHM

Senior Lecturer in Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Karen is a consultant paediatrician and public health physican with a background in clinical paediatrics and child health program development in Australia. She joined LSHTM in 2001. Karen's research is driven by a desire to improve the health of newborns and young infants living in deprived and marginalised communities. There are three main areas of work: a health systems approach to improving paediatric health service delivery; a biological approach to improving nutritional and infectious disease outcomes; and a longer term objective of improving neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants and young children. The health system approach includes improving access to health care, understanding careseeking patterns, reducing delays in delivery of health services, improving quality of care and reducing loss to follow up. The biological work involves assessing the impact of interventions to reduce infectious disease, assessing the importance of novel and underutilised vaccines, studies on infectious disease aetiology, evaluating the impact of community and hospital based child health nutritional interventions (such as breastfeeding and micronutrients) in term and low birth weight infants, assessing interactions between nutritional and vaccine related interventions, and evaluating the long term neurodevelopmental sequelae of these interventions. The work also involves assessing the use of community based data collection systems such as verbal autopsies, demographic surveillance data, laboratory based surveillance, research data bases and routinely collected hospital data. Karen also works with the World Health Organization and the GAVI Alliance in developing and evaluating infant health interventions. Karen is also an independent trial monitor for the Medical Research Council (MRC).  Karen is also a consultant in paediatrics at University College London Hospital.

Affiliation

Teaching

Teaching responsibilities include lecturer and examiner in the Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) at LSHTM, lecturing in the LSHTM Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases study unit, primary supervision of LSHTM Masters of Science and PhD students and PhD examiner. The position also involves assisting with research degree coordination for the LSHTM Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and assisting with the coordination of the LSHTM evaluation of vaccines short course.

Research

Please see above

Research areas

  • Child health
  • Health systems
  • Infectious disease
  • Perinatal health
  • Vaccines

Disciplines

  • Epidemiology
  • Medicine

Other interests

  • MARCH
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