Natasha Howard AB MSc DrPH(c)

Research Fellow

Before joining LSHTM in 2005, Natasha was reproductive health technical officer for WHO country office in Myanmar and focusing on initiatives in making pregnancy safer, newborn care, and malaria in pregnancy. In 2003, she worked on malaria in pregnancy research with HealthNet Int'l in Afghanistan. In 2001-2003, Natasha set up a malaria control programme for Population Services International (PSI) in Myanmar, conducting vector, socio-economic research and marketing research and developing pre-packaged malaria diagnostic kits and mefloquine-artesunate treatment packs for use by private general practitioners. Prior to this she worked in TB treatment, obstetrics, and community development in Jordan. She received a bachelor's in international development from University of California at Davis, an MSc in public health in developing countries from LSHTM, and is currently finishing a DrPH focussing on malaria control for Afghans.

Affiliation

Teaching

Natasha is co-director, with Justin Parkhurst, of the new Global Health Policy course. She also works as module organiser for PHM101 Basic Epidemiology and GHM103 Environmental Change and Global Health Policy. She is deputy module organiser for PHM209 Globalisation and Health, ID701 Introduction to Public Health and Infectious Disease Control, and GHM104 Issues in Global Health Policy. She also organises and teaches on Conflict & Health programme short courses and teaches on various in-house modules.

She has co-authored, with Ilona Carneiro, the 2011 second edition of the Introduction to Epidemiology textbook for Open University Press. She is currently editing the first edition of the Conflict & Health textbook with Egbert Sondorp and Annemarie ter Veen. 

Research

Natasha is currently working with colleagues from the Gender Violence & Health Centre and London Metropolitan and Durham Universities on an evaluation of the contribution perpetrator programmes make to coordinated community responses to domestic violence in the UK.

Other current research projects include reproductive health issues among refugees in chronic emergency settings (e.g. Guinea, Rwanda), malaria in Myanmar, and Ebola in Uganda.

DrPH Professional attachment project (with the Malaria Consortium): Piloting an advocacy evaluation framework. Thesis: Evaluation of effectiveness, efficiency, equity and humanity of malaria control for Afghans in refugee camps in Pakistan and villages in Afghanistan (1990-2000)

Research areas

  • Conflict
  • Global Health
  • Sexual health

Disciplines

  • Epidemiology
  • Operational research

Disease and Health Conditions

  • Infectious disease
  • Malaria
  • Mental health
  • Sexually transmitted infection

Regions

  • Least developed countries: UN classification
  • Middle East & North Africa (developing only)

Countries

  • Afghanistan
  • Myanmar

Other interests

  • Fragile States
  • Low And Middle Income Countries
  • MARCH
  • Malaria Centre
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