Judith Glynn BM BCh MA MSc PhD FRCP

Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

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Judith Glynn left clinical medicine to come to the School in 1990 to do the MSc in Epidemiology. She went on to do a PhD (on the influence of infecting dose on severity of disease) and then joined the Karonga Prevention Study to work on tuberculosis and HIV in Malawi.

Affiliation

• Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Teaching

Judith runs courses on Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, and also teaches on Extended Epidemiology and Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases

Research

Her main research interests are: the susceptibility of young women to HIV; the role of HSV-2 in HIV transmission; the impact of HIV on mortality and morbidity; HIV surveillance; the relationship between HIV and tuberculosis; molecular epidemiology of HIV and TB. Her current research studies are in Malawi and South Africa.

• Selected publications

• Recurrent TB: relapse or reinfection? The effect of HIV in a general population cohort in Malawi.

  Crampin, A.C.; Mwaungulu, J.N.; Mwaungulu, F.D.; Mwafulirwa, D.T.; Munthali, K.; Floyd, S.; Fine, P.E.; Glynn, J.R.;

  AIDS, 2010; 24(3):417-26

• High Rates of Recurrence in HIV-Infected and HIV-Uninfected Patients with Tuberculosis.

  Glynn, J.R.; Murray, J.; Bester, A.; Nelson, G.; Shearer, S.; Sonnenberg, P.;

  J Infect Dis, 2010; 201(5):704-11

• Child Mortality in Rural Malawi: HIV Closes the Survival Gap between the Socio-Economic Strata.

  Jahn, A.; Floyd, S.; McGrath, N.; Crampin, A.C.; Kachiwanda, L.; Mwinuka, V.; Zaba, B.; Fine, P.E.; Glynn, J.R.;

  PLoS One, 2010; 5(6):e11320

• Changes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Genotype Families Over 20 Years in a Population-Based Study in Northern Malawi.

  Glynn, J.R.; Alghamdi, S.; Mallard, K.; McNerney, R.; Ndlovu, R.; Munthali, L.; Houben, R.M.; Fine, P.E.; French, N.; Crampin, A.C.;

  PLoS One, 2010; 5(8)

• Age at menarche, schooling, and sexual debut in northern Malawi.

  Glynn, J.R.; Kayuni, N.; Floyd, S.; Banda, E.; Francis-Chizororo, M.; Tanton, C.; Molesworth, A.; Hemmings, J.; Crampin, A.C.; French, N.;

  PLoS One, 2010; 5(12):e15334

• Is education the link between orphanhood and HIV/HSV-2 risk among female adolescents in urban Zimbabwe?

  Birdthistle, I.; Floyd, S.; Nyagadza, A.; Mudziwapasi, N.; Gregson, S.; Glynn, J.R.;

  Soc Sci Med, 2009; 68(10):1810-8

• Population-level effect of HIV on adult mortality and early evidence of reversal after introduction of antiretroviral therapy in Malawi.

  Jahn, A.; Floyd, S.; Crampin, A.C.; Mwaungulu, F.; Mvula, H.; Munthali, F.; McGrath, N.; Mwafilaso, J.; Mwinuka, V.; Mangongo, B.; Fine, P.E.; Zaba, B.; Glynn, J.R.;

  Lancet, 2008; 371(9624):1603-11

• Determinants of Cluster Size in Large, Population-Based Molecular Epidemiology Study of Tuberculosis, Northern Malawi.

  Glynn, J.R.; Crampin, A.C.; Traore, H.; Chaguluka, S.; Mwafulirwa, D.T.; Alghamdi, S.; Ngwira, B.M.; Yates, M.D.; Drobniewski, F.D.; Fine, P.E.;

  Emerg Infect Dis, 2008; 14(7):1060-1066

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