Ellen Fragaszy BS MSc

Research Fellow in Statistics & Epidemiology

Ellen Fragaszy obtained her undergraduate degree in International Health from the University of Georgia in 2005. She completed an MSc in Epidemiology at LSHTM in 2007 and joined the school as a research staff member shortly thereafter.

Affiliation

Teaching

Ellen is the LSHTM Course Director for the MSc Veterinary Epidemiology.  This course is jointly run with the Royal Veterinary College.

She teaches on the Epidemiology & Control of Communicable Diseases (ECCD) module.

She has previously taught on Statistics for Epidemiology & Population Health (STEPH), Design and Analysis of Epidemiological Studies (DANES) and on the Intensive Course in Epidmeiology & Medical Statistics (ICEMS) Short Course.

Research

Ellen currently divides her time between working at LSHTM as the Course Director for MSc Veterinary Epidemiology and working at University College London (UCL) as a Research Associate in Statistics.

Her main research areas include Maternal Health, Infectious Intestinal Disease, Influenza transmission, Healthcare Associated Infections, stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trials and methodology. She is also very interested in zoonoses.

LSHTM research projects include:

Maternal Health Research - focused on estimating the frequency, gestational length and outcome of all pregnancies in the United States and by world regions. These estimates will become the "population at risk" denominator for a study on maternal mortality.

Infectious Intestinal Disease & Methodological Research - methodological study on the differential response rate due to socio-economic and demographic characteristics in a Campylobacter case-control study.

UCL research projects:

Influenza Transmission (Flu Watch Study) - Ellen is the statistician for the Flu Watch Study. This is a 3 year community cohort study of the behavioural and biological determinants of influenza transmission to inform seasonal and pandemic planning.

Healthcare Associated Infections & Stepped Wedge Trials (I-STRAT) - Ellen is the statistician for the I-STRAT study. This study seeks to design and pilot a feasible stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial of the effect of isolation strategies on endemic rates of MRSA and Clostridium difficile in hospitals.

Research areas

  • Maternal health

Disciplines

  • Epidemiology

Disease and Health Conditions

  • Infectious disease
  • Influenza
  • Pandemic diseases

Other interests

  • MARCH
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