Dr Lucy Platt Ba MSc PhD
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- LSHTM
- 15-17 Tavistock Place
- London
- WC1H 9SH
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I joined the School in 2006 as part of the Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour. My doctoral thesis examined how epidemiological research methods can be used for surveillance of HIV in the context of a concentrated HIV epidemic amongst injecting drug users. For this work, I drew on data from a multi-method study (using qualitative and quantitative approaches) of HIV/HCV and syphilis prevalence and risk environment among injecting drug users and sex workers in the Russian Federation.
Affiliation
Teaching
Seminar facilitation on Principles of Social Research and Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco. MSc supervision for the MSc in Public Health.
Research
Most recently I have completed an MRC funded project examining the effects of migration and risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV among female migrant sex workers from Eastern Europe. This study employed both quantitative and qualitative research methods and provided a unique estimate of STI prevalence and risk among a non-treatment sample of migrant sex workers working in London. I have also been working on a study for the World Bank synthesising the evidence on the state of the HIV epidemic and response among high-risk populations in Europe.
Research areas
- Mixed methods
- Public health
- Risk
- Social and structural determinants of health
- Substance abuse
- Surveillance
Disciplines
- Epidemiology
Disease and Health Conditions
- Addiction
- HIV/AIDS
- Sexually transmitted disease
Regions
- Europe & Central Asia (all income levels)
Countries
- Estonia
- Kazakhstan
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Russian Federation
- Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan
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Selected publications
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Risk of sexually transmitted infections and violence among indoor-working female sex workers in London: the effect of migration from Eastern Europe.
Platt, L.; Grenfell, P.; Bonell, C.; Creighton, S.; Wellings, K.; Parry, J.; Rhodes, T.;
Sex Transm Infect, 2011; 87(5):377-84
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Prevalence of HIV, HCV and sexually transmitted infections among injecting drug users in Rawalpindi and Abbottabad, Pakistan: evidence for an emerging injection-related HIV epidemic.
Platt, L.; Vickerman, P.; Collumbien, M.; Hasan, S.; Lalji, N.; Mayhew, S.; Muzaffar, R.; Andreasen, A.; Hawkes, S.;
Sex Transm Infect, 2009; 85 Suppl 2:ii17-22
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Modelling the transmission of HIV and HCV among injecting drug users in Rawalpindi, a low HCV prevalence setting in Pakistan.
Vickerman, P.; Platt, L.; Hawkes, S.;
Sex Transm Infect, 2009; 85 Suppl 2:ii23-30
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Measuring risk of HIV and HCV among injecting drug users in the Russian Federation.
Platt, L.; Sutton, A.J.; Vickerman, P.; Koshkina, E.; Maximova, S.; Latishevskaya, N.; Hickman, M.; Bonell, C.; Parry, J.; Rhodes, T.;
Eur J Public Health, 2009; 19(4):428-33
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Changes in HIV Prevalence and Risk Among New Injecting Drug Users in a Russian City of High HIV Prevalence.
Platt, L.; Rhodes, T.; Hickman, M.; Mikhailova, L.; Lisetsky, K.; Sarang, A.; Lewis, K.; Parry, J.;
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 2008; 47(5):623-631
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High HIV prevalence among injecting drug users in Estonia: implications for understanding the risk environment.
Platt, L.; Bobrova, N.; Rhodes, T.; Uuskala, A.; Parry, J.V.; Rajatel, K.; Talu, A.; Abel, K.; Rajaleid, K.; Judd, A.;
AIDS, 2006; 20(16):2120-2123
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Methods to Recruit Hard-to-Reach Groups: Comparing Two Chain Referral Sampling Methods of Recruiting Injecting Drug Users Across Nine Studies in Russia and Estonia.
Platt, L.; Wall, M.; Rhodes, T.; Judd, A.; Hickman, M.; Johnston, L.G.; Renton, A.; Bobrova, N.; Sarang, A.;
J Urban Health, 2006; 83 Suppl 7:39-53
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