James Lewis BA MSc PhD

Lecturer

• Affiliation
• Teaching
• Research
• Publications

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• Aurum Institute for Health Research
• LSHTM
• Keppel Street
• London
• WC1E 7HT
• T: +27 10 590 1426

I studied maths and applied statistics for my BA and MSc and then completed a PhD in the epidemiology of HIV in rural Zimbabwe at Imperial College London. Since then I have been based in Johannesburg, South Africa for the past six years at the Aurum Institute for Health Research working on TB and HIV.

Affiliation

• Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Teaching

As I am based in Johannesburg, my teaching is on the Distance Learning MSc's in Epidemiology and in Clinical Trials. Specifically, I am co-organiser of the Advanced Statistical Methods in Epidemiology module on the Epidemiology Msc and I am a tutor on the Cluster Randomised Trials module of the Clinical Trials MSc.

Research

My research is focused on the statistical epidemiology of TB and HIV. The main focus of my current work is a cluster randomised trial of the impact of community-wide isoniazid preventive therapy on TB incidence in the South African gold mines. I also work on several other TB and HIV projects at the Aurum Institute where I am based. I am involved with a cluster randomised trial of the impact of medication monitors and SMS reminders on TB adherence in China.

• Selected publications

• HIV Infection does not Affect Active Case Finding of Tuberculosis in South African Gold Miners

  Lewis, J.J.; Charalambous, S.; Day, J.H.; Fielding, K.L.; Grant, A.D.; Hayes, R.J.; Corbett, E.L.; Churchyard, G.J.;

  American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2009; 180(12):1271-8

• Increasing drug resistant tuberculosis in the UK.

  Lewis, J.J.; Chihota, V.N.;

  BMJ, 2008; 336(7655):1201-2

• Evaluating the proximate determinants framework for HIV infection in rural Zimbabwe.

  Lewis, J.J.; Donnelly, C.A.; Mare, P.; Mupambireyi, Z.; Garnett, G.P.; Gregson, S.;

  Sex Transm Infect, 2007; 83 Suppl 1:i61-69

• HIV incidence and poverty in Manicaland, Zimbabwe: is HIV becoming a disease of the poor?

  Lopman, B.; Lewis, J.; Nyamukapa, C.; Mushati, P.; Chandiwana, S.; Gregson, S.

  Aids, 2007; 21:S57-S66

• HIV decline associated with behavior change in eastern Zimbabwe.

  Gregson, S.; Garnett, G.P.; Nyamukapa, C.A.; Hallett, T.B.; Lewis, J.J.; Mason, P.R.; Chandiwana, S.K.; Anderson, R.M.;

  Science, 2006; 311(5761):664-6

• Beer halls as a focus for HIV prevention activities in rural Zimbabwe.

  Lewis, J.J.; Garnett, G.P.; Mhlanga, S.; Nyamukapa, C.A.; Donnelly, C.A.; Gregson, S.;

  Sex Transm Dis, 2005; 32(6):364-9

• Patterns of uptake of treatment for self reported sexually transmitted infection symptoms in rural Zimbabwe.

  Lewis, J.J.; Garnett, G.P.; Nyamukapa, C.A.; Donnelly, C.A.; Mason, P.R.; Gregson, S.;

  Sex Transm Infect, 2005; 81(4):326-32

• The population impact of HIV on fertility in sub-Saharan Africa

  Lewis, J. J. C.; Ronsmans, C.; Ezeh, A.; Gregson, S.

  Aids, 2004; 18:S35

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