Dr Arantxa Roca-Feltrer BSc MSc PhD

Honorary Lecturer Epidemiology

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• Teaching
• Publications

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• Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust
• Chichiri, Blantyre 3
• Blantyre
• P.O. Box 30096
• T: +265 (0) 999 981 421

Arantxa graduated in Biology from University of Valencia (Spain)in 2000. After finishing her BSc, she obtained a MSc in Tropical Parasitic Diseases at the University of Valencia, and then went on to complete her MSc in Epidemiology at the LSHTM in 2001.

She joined LSHTM in January 2003 to work on a project focused on estimating the Global Burden of Malaria for children under the age of five years old. This project was funded by the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG) within the WHO, and contributed to the Global Burden of Disease 2000 estimates, which were updated by the Evidence and Information for Policy group at WHO. In 2004 she was involved in a project focused on estimating the Burden of Malarial Anaemia in Children under Five Years in Sub-Saharan Africa, for the Roll Back Malaria Partnership (WHO).

In October 2005, she joined the Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Infants (IPTi) Consortium to generate an overview of the exact age-pattern of malaria disease and deaths to determine the epidemiological contexts in which IPTi was likely to be most effective. As a result of that work she obtained her PhD at the LSHTM in 2008.

Currently, she is based in Malawi working for the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in a trial linked to the ACT Consortium. She is interested in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) and is currently running 'rolling Malaria Indicator Surveys' to monitor changes in the burden of malaria in an area of rapid scale-up of malaria control interventions.

Affiliation

• Department of Disease Control
• Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
• Distance Education and Professional Development Office

Teaching

She is involved in the School's Teaching Programme working in the Distance Learning Programme as a tutor in EP101 (Epidemiology), EP103 (Practical Epidemiology), and EP201 (Study Design: Writing a Grant Application). She recently join the PHDC Master course to also tutor on the Basic Epidemiology module (PH101).

• Selected publications

• Age-patterns of malaria vary with severity, transmission intensity and seasonality in sub-saharan Africa: a systematic review and pooled analysis.

  Carneiro, I.; Roca-Feltrer, A.; Griffin, J.T.; Smith, L.; Tanner, M.; Schellenberg, J.A.; Greenwood, B.; Schellenberg, D.;

  PLoS One, 2010; 5(2):e8988

• The age patterns of severe malaria syndromes in sub-Saharan Africa across a range of transmission intensities and seasonality settings.

  Roca-Feltrer, A.; Carneiro, I.; Smith, L.; Schellenberg, J.R.; Greenwood, B.; Schellenberg, D.;

  Malar J, 2010; 9:282

• Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants: a decision-support tool for sub-Saharan Africa.

  Carneiro, I.; Smith, L.; Ross, A.; Roca-Feltrer, A.; Greenwood, B.; Schellenberg, J.A.; Smith, T.; Schellenberg, D.;

  Bull World Health Organ, 2010; 88(11):807-14

• A simple method for defining malaria seasonality.

  Roca-Feltrer, A.; Schellenberg, J.R.; Smith, L.; Carneiro, I.;

  Malar J, 2009; 8:276

• Estimates of the burden of malaria morbidity in Africa in children under the age of 5 years.

  Roca-Feltrer, A.; Carneiro, I.; Armstrong Schellenberg, J.R.;

  Trop Med Int Health, 2008; 13(6):771-83

• Gaps in policy-relevant information on burden of disease in children: a systematic review.

  Rudan, I.; Lawn, J.; Cousens, S.; Rowe, A.K.; Boschi-Pinto, C.; Tomasković, L.; Mendoza, W.; Lanata, C.F.; Roca-Feltrer, A.; Carneiro, I.; Schellenberg, J.A.; Polasek, O.; Weber, M.; Bryce, J.; Morris, S.S.; Black, R.E.; Campbell, H.;

  Lancet, 2005; 365(9476):2031-40

• Estimates of the burden of malaria morbidity in Africa in children under the age of fives years (2005)

  Carneiro, I.; Roca-Feltrer, A.; Schellenberg, J.A.

  Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group Working Paper 2005

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