Punam Mangtani BSc MBBS MRCP MSc MD

Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology

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• Teaching
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• LSHTM
• Keppel Street
• London
• WC1E 7HT
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Punam Mangtani joined the school as a MRC training fellow in 1992 after completing her MSc in epidemiology here. Prior to this she was a lecturer in General Practice and had also worked at the Health protection Agency (formerly the Public Health Laboratory Service). She does research on influenza and other vaccine preventable infections as well as on cancer.

Affiliation

• Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Teaching

Punam is the course director for the MSc in Epidemiology and the link person for the European Masters in Epidemiology

Research

Her main research areas of interest are influenza, pneumonia, TB and hepatitis as well as reproductive health. Her current work is on the epidemiology of acute respiratory infections and other vaccine preventable diseases. She also has expertise in interdisciplinary approaches e.g. health economics and vaccine preventable diseases, nutrition and cancer and an interest in migrant studies.

• Selected publications

• Evidence based immunisation policies for Hib vaccine in HIV infected children: A literature review.

  Mangtani, P; Hajjeh, R; Mahdi, S; Edmond, K; O’Loughlin, R; Mulholland, K.;

  Vaccine, In Press;

• Pandemic H1N1 infection in pregnant women in the USA.

  Mangtani, P.; Mak, T.K.; Pfeifer, D.;

  Lancet, 2009; 374(9688):429-30

• Influenza vaccination in pregnancy: current evidence and selected national policies

  Mak, T.K.; Mangtani, P.; Leese, J.; Watson, J.M.; Pfeifer, D.

  Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2008; 8(1):44-52

• Estimates of the reproduction numbers of Spanish influenza using morbidity data.

  Vynnycky, E.; Trindall, A.; Mangtani, P.;

  Int J Epidemiol, 2007; 36(4):881-9

• The association of respiratory syncytial virus infection and influenza with emergency admissions for respiratory disease in London: an analysis of routine surveillance data.

  Mangtani, P.; Hajat, S.; Kovats, S.; Wilkinson, P.; Armstrong, B.;

  Clin Infect Dis, 2006; 42(5):640-6

• Inequalities in influenza vaccine uptake among people aged over 74 years in Britain.

  Mangtani, P.; Breeze, E.; Kovats, R.S.; Ng, E.S.; Roberts, J.A.; Fletcher, A.;

  Prev Med, 2005; 41(2):545-53

• A cohort study of the effectiveness of influenza vaccine in older people, performed using the United kingdom general practice research database.

  Mangtani, P.; Cumberland, P.; Hodgson, C.R.; Roberts, J.A.; Cutts, F.T.; Hall, A.J.;

  J Infect Dis , 2004; 190 (1 ):1-10

• Efficacy of polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccine in adults in more developed countries: the state of the evidence

  Mangtani, P.; Cutts, F.; Hall, A. J.

  Lancet Infect Dis, 2003; 3(2):71-8

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