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Mrs Lucy Paintain

Assistant Professor

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

I graduated in 2002 from the University of Sheffield with a BSc in Biochemistry & Microbiology. I then made the move from molecular science into epidemiology and public health by studying for the MSc Control of Infectious Diseases at LSHTM.

Since completing my Masters in 2004, I have been involved in a number of different projects at the School, related to water and sanitation, visceral leishmaniasis and malaria. My interests are in delivery systems for disease control interventions, and monitoring and evaluation of their equity with a particular emphasis on the role of economic evaluation to inform decision-making.

Affiliations

Department of Disease Control
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Centres

Centre for Evaluation
Malaria Centre
Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health

Teaching

I deliver lectures on the Malaria: From Science to Policy & Practice module; I am also a seminar leader for the Applying Public Health Principles module. I am a personal tutor for the MSc Control of Infectious Diseases (CID) and MSc Public Health for Development (PH4D).

Research

Current projects include: Co-Lead of the Economic Evaluation work package for the Plus Project, working with Population Services International and national government and research partners to generate evidence on where, when and how to deliver perennial malaria chemoprevention (PMC). PMC is an extension of the previous intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants (IPTi) policy, increasing the age range to the second year of life and adding more doses. PMC is being implemented and evaluated at sub-national scale in four countries (Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire and Mozambique), additional evaluation activities to support evidence for policy adoption and scale-up will be conducted in DRC, Ghana and Zambia. I am also responsible for the economic evaluation component of a study evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of integrating mass drug administration for helminth control with seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Ghanaian children (the MALHELMIN 3 Study).

Other recent projects have included: A multi-disciplinary process evaluation of a community-based intervention to improve maternal and child health in rural Guinea; Deputy Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Lead for KalaCORE, a DfID-funded consortium for control and elimination of visceral leishmaniasis, supporting national eradication efforts and coordinating with control programmes in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan; Economic evaluation of a private sector malaria prevention project in Ghana; Cost-effectiveness analysis of alternative malaria in pregnancy control interventions in Indonesia; Cost effectiveness-evaluation of a national long-lasting insecticide-treated net (LLIN) "hang-up" campaign in Ghana; Systematic literature review on community case management of malaria; Systematic literature review on effectiveness of strategies strengthening national health service delivery to increase health service access in low income countries.

Research Area
Evaluation
Economic evaluation
Health economics
Mixed methods research
Child health
Public health
Implementation science
Disease control
Disease and Health Conditions
Malaria
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Infectious diseases
Country
Benin
Cameroon
Cote d'Ivoire
Mozambique
Bangladesh
India
Ethiopia
Sudan
South Sudan
Ghana
Guinea
Indonesia
Nepal
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)

Selected Publications

Using donor funding to catalyse investment in malaria prevention in Ghana: an analysis of the potential impact on public and private sector expenditure.
PAINTAIN, L; Kpabitey, R; Nyanor-Fosu, F; Piccinini Black, D; Bertram, K; WEBSTER, J; GOODMAN, C; Lynch, M;
2022
Malaria Journal
Cost-effectiveness of intermittent preventive treatment with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine versus single screening and treatment for the control of malaria in pregnancy in Papua, Indonesia: a provider perspective analysis from a cluster-randomised trial.
PAINTAIN, L; Hill, J; Ahmed, R; Umbu Reku Landuwulang, C; Ansariadi, A; Rini Poespoprodjo, J; Syafruddin, D; Khairallah, C; Burdam, FH; Bonsapia, I; Ter Kuile, FO; WEBSTER, J;
2020
The Lancet Global Health
Impact of Education on Knowledge and Practice of Kala Azar Preventive Measures among Seasonal and Migrant Agricultural Workers in Northwest Ethiopia.
Alemayehu, M; PAINTAIN, L; Adera, C; Berhe, R; Gebeyehu, A; Gizaw, Z; Herrero, M; Mulugeta Beshah, A; Den Boer, M; Nigusie, A; Alem, M; Yechale, E; Elnaiem, D-EA;
2020
Am J Trop Med Hyg
THE CATASTROPHIC ECONOMIC BURDEN OF VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS IN BANGLADESH, INDIA, ETHIOPIA AND SUDAN: FINANCIAL RISK PROTECTION IS NOT ENOUGH
PAINTAIN, L; Boudarene, L; Pearson, M; EDWARDS, T; Alatiaby, AA; Mondal, D; Adera, C; Prakash, M; Postigo, RJ; Dagne, AD; Den Boer, M; Burza, S; WEBSTER, J;
2019
TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
Comparing time and motion methods to study personnel time in the context of a family planning supply chain intervention in Senegal.
McElwee, E; CRESSWELL, JA; Yao, C; Bakeu, M; Cavallaro, FL; DUCLOS, D; LYNCH, CA; PAINTAIN, L;
2018
HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH
Caregivers' compliance with referral advice: evidence from two studies introducing mRDTs into community case management of malaria in Uganda.
LAL, S; Ndyomugenyi, R; PAINTAIN, L; ALEXANDER, ND; Hansen, KS; Magnussen, P; CHANDRAMOHAN, D; CLARKE, SE;
2018
BMC health services research
Visceral leishmaniasis treatment access - The reality on the ground in Sudan
Atiaby, A; Alkhatim, SS; Elhag, MS; Herrero, M; PAINTAIN, L; WEBSTER, J; Alvar, J; Ritmeijer, K; Den Boer, M;
2017
TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH
Cross-sectional surveys in Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia & Sudan to understand visceral leishmaniasis treatment seeking, diagnosis, treatment and household economic burden
PAINTAIN, L; Hererro, M; Aggarwal, V; Pearson, M; EDWARDS, T; Alatiaby, AA; Mondal, D; Misra, K; Adera, C; Prakash, M; Rahman, M; Belay, S; Mengesha, B; Khalid, G; Hamed, Y; Alhag, M; Alnor, M; Leslie, T; Postigo, J; Argaw, D; Den Boer, M; Burza, S; WEBSTER, J;
2017
TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH
Provider and user acceptability of intermittent screening and treatment for the control of malaria in pregnancy in Malawi.
Almond, D; Madanitsa, M; Mwapasa, V; Kalilani-Phiri, L; WEBSTER, J; Ter Kuile, F; PAINTAIN, L;
2016
Malaria journal
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