Lisa Hurt (nee Davies)MBChB MSc PhD

Research Fellow

I studied medicine at Manchester University, graduating in 1995. After completing my house jobs in the UK and a year of emergency medicine in Australia, I came to LSHTM to study for the MSc in Epidemiology. I then completed a PhD with Carine Ronsmans of the Maternal Health Group, using data from the Matlab demographic surveillance system to examine the long-term consequences of childbearing on mortality. For my post-doctoral work, I used the Matlab data again, to look at the duration and magnitude of mortality after pregnancy. After this, I went to work as director of the ObaapaVitA study, based in Kintampo, Ghana, for 18 months.

Affiliation

Teaching

My main teaching duties currently are on the MSc by distance learning in Epidemiology, and I am deputy module organiser for EPM103 "Practical Epidemiology". I also lecture on the in-house course on Current Issues in Safe Motherhood and Perinatal Health. I have previously been study unit organiser for "Design and Analysis of Epidemiological Studies" and have taught on a variety of other units including "Basic Epidemiology", "Statistics with Computing", and "Intensive Course in Epidemiology and Statistical Methods".

Research

I now work part-time as an epidemiologist for the ObaapaVitA and Neovita trials. ObaapaVitA is a cluster-randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial, examining the impact of low-dose weekly vitamin A supplemenation on pregnancy-related mortality in rural Ghana, and Neovita is an individually randomized controlled trial to determine the efficacy and safety of newborn vitamin A supplementation given either on the day of birth or in the next 2 days in reducing mortality and severe morbidity in the first half of infancy in Ghana. Data collection for ObaapaVitA finished at the end of October 2008, and my current role is in coordinating the analysis of the data and the publication of the findings. Neovita will continue to recruit live births until early 2012, with follow-up until they are 6 months of age.

Research areas

  • Child health
  • Clinical trials
  • Global Health
  • Maternal health
  • Micronutrients
  • Neonatal health
  • Perinatal health
  • Randomised controlled trials

Disciplines

  • Epidemiology
  • Medicine
  • Nutrition

Regions

  • Least developed countries: UN classification
  • South Asia
  • Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Countries

  • Bangladesh
  • Ghana

Other interests

  • Adult Mortality
  • Africa
  • Analysis Of Longitudinal Data
  • Cluster Randomised Trials
  • ELearning
  • Women's health
  • pregnancy
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