Suzanna Francis FNP MPH PhD

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Suzanna has been an MRC Population Health Scientist Fellow since 2011. She completed her PhD in 2011, "Intravaginal practices in Tanzania and Uganda: Relationships with vaginal microenvironment, HIV and other STIs." Prior to research studies, she worked as a STI/HIV nurse clinician for the San Francisco Department of Public Health's municipal STI clinic. She graduated with a Master in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2006, a MSc in Nursing from University of California, San Francisco in 1999, and a Bachelor in Arts and Bachelor in Science from the University of Washington in 1995.

Affiliation

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

Teaching

Suzanna is a Project Organiser for the MSc in Epidemiology Distance Learning (DL) Course. She also teaches on the “AIDS” DL module; two in-house modules “Control of RTIs and STIs” and “Analysis and Design of Research Studies;” and two summer intensives "Intensive Epidemiology and Medical Statistics" and “Advanced Course in Epidemiological Analysis.” Previously, she was clinical faculty of the California STD/ HIV Prevention Training Center (National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers, USA), and taught the assessment and management of STIs, including diagnostic laboratory skills, to visiting clinicians, medical students, medical fellows and nurse practitioner students.

Research

Suzanna's main research interest is the epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. She is currently investigating a common reproductive tract infection, bacterial vaginosis, and its link with HIV acquisition. She plans to carry out a detail analysis of BV in the setting of women at increased risk in East Africa by investigating social and behavioural determinants, vaginal microbial ecology, the host immune response.

She also works on topics related to female controlled HIV prevention methods and is a co-investigator in the International Partnership for Microbicide (IPM)-funded "Biomarker for Microbicides" grants, and the EDCTP-funded "Characterisation of novel microbicides safety biomarkers in East and South Africa."

• Selected publications

• Intravaginal Practices, Bacterial Vaginosis, and HIV Infection in Women: Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis

  Low, N.; Chersich, M.F.; Schmidlin, K.; Egger, M.; Francis, S.C.; van de Wijgert, J.; Hayes, R.J.; Baeten, J.M.; Brown, J.; Delany-Moretlwe, S.; Kaul, R.; McGrath, N.; Morrison, C.; Myer, L.; Temmerman, M.; van der Straten, A.; Watson-Jones, D.; Zwahlen, M.; Hilber, A.M.

  Plos Medicine, 2011; 8(2)

• HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections in a Cohort of Women Involved in High-Risk Sexual Behavior in Kampala, Uganda

  Vandepitte, J.; Bukenya, J.; Weiss, H.A.; Nakubulwa, S.; Francis, S.C.; Hughes, P.; Hayes, R.; Grosskurth, H.

  Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 2011; 38(4):316-323

• Intravaginal Practices, Vaginal Infections and HIV Acquisition: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

  Hilber, A.M.; Francis, S.C.; Chersich, M.; Scott, P.; Redmond, S.; Bender, N.; Miotti, P.; Temmerman, M.; Low, N.;

  PLoS One, 2010; 5(2):e9119

• Are women who work in bars, guesthouses and similar facilities a suitable study population for vaginal microbicide trials in Africa?

  Vallely, A.; Hambleton, I.R.; Kasindi, S.; Knight, L.; Francis, S.C.; Chirwa, T.; Everett, D.; Shagi, C.; Cook, C.; Barberousse, C.; Watson-Jones, D.; Changalucha, J.; Ross, D.; Hayes, R.J.; Microbicides Development Programme, .;

  PLoS One, 2010; 5(5):e10661

• Intravaginal and menstrual practices among women working in food and recreational facilities in Mwanza, Tanzania: implications for microbicide trials.

  Allen, C.F.; Desmond, N.; Chiduo, B.; Medard, L.; Lees, S.S.; Vallely, A.; Francis, S.C.; Ross, D.A.; Hayes, R.J.;

  AIDS Behav, 2010; 14(5):1169-81

• Methodological Issues in Sampling the Local Immune System of the Female Genital Tract in the Context of HIV Prevention Trials.

  Jespers, V.; Francis, S.C.; van de Wijgert, J.; Crucitti, T.;

  Am J Reprod Immunol, 2010;

• Prevalence of rectal Trichomonas vaginalis and Mycoplasma genitalium in male patients at the San Francisco STD clinic, 2005-2006.

  Francis, S.C.; Kent, C.K.; Klausner, J.D.; Rauch, L.; Kohn, R.; Hardick, A.; Gaydos, C.A.;

  Sex Transm Dis, 2008; 35(9):797-800

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