Seyi Soremekun BSc MSc PhD

Research Fellow Postdoctoral, Epidemiology

Post-doctoral Researcher working under the Maternal and Child Health Collaborative Research Programme in the department of Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research.

Affiliation

Teaching

I am a tutor on the following modules:

Infection and Nutrition (Faculty ITD, Distance Learning)

Designs and Analysis of Epidemiological Studies (Faculty EPH)

Basic Epidemiology (Faculty EPH)

Research

Projects:

The WHO/DFID/SNL-funded ‘Newhints’ randomised controlled trial assessing the impact of routine home visits by community health volunteers during pregnancy and after delivery on neonatal mortality in rural Ghana. We are also interested in the effect of the health volunteer scheme on the level and type of infant care (breastfeeding, care-seeking etc) provided by mothers.

I am also part of the LSHTM team working in collaboration with the Malaria Consortium (malariaconsortium.org) on a Gates-funded project using community-based agents (CBAs) in Mozambique and Uganda to counsel, diagnose and treat malaria, diarrhoea, and pneumonia in children under five years of age. CBA schemes often suffer from lack of resources (particularly drugs), and low motivation and retention of the CBAs themselves. We aim to trial novel and innovative methods to tackle these issues in two sites in rural east Africa and will measure the impact of the methods via comparison of the levels of appropriately treated children in control and intervention areas in these sites.

 

Research areas

  • Child health
  • Infectious disease policy

Disciplines

  • Epidemiology
  • Immunoepidemiology
  • Parasitology
  • Vector biology

Disease and Health Conditions

  • Leishmaniasis
  • Malaria

Regions

  • Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)

Countries

  • Ghana
  • Mozambique
  • Uganda
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