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Prof Jimmy Whitworth

Professor of Epidemiology

United Kingdom

Emeritus Professor, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Jimmy first came to LSHTM in 1990 as a clinical lecturer. working on vector borne parasitic diseases and running as co-course organiser the Public Health in Developing Countries MSc. He has been back at LSHTM since 2015 where he was chair of the Ethics Committee until 2022. He helped to establish the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team in 2017 and was the Deputy Director for Research until 2019. He was also the focal point at LSHTM for WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, a member of the scientific advisory committee for the WHO Research and Development Blueprint for Action to Prevent Epidemics and a member of the Global Coordination Mechanism. He retired in 2021, and is now an emeritus professor and member of the LSHTM ethics committee. he us also a member of the HHCC and CEPR centres at LSHTM.

He worked in The Gambia in 1983-5 for Save The Children in Basse.

Since then he has worked for the MRC on onchocerciasis in Bo, Sierra Leone (1986-90), and on HIV in Uganda (1996-2004).

He worked for the Wellcome Trust from 2004-2015 where he was responsible for development of the scientific portfolio for research in low and middle income countries and the development of capacity strengthening programmes.

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Antimicrobial Resistance Centre

Research

International public health

Outbreaks and humanitarian crises

Field epidemiology

Ethics

Capacity building in low resource settings

HIV in low resource settings

Onchocerciasis and other vector borne parasitic diseases

Selected Publications

Public Health Infrastructure
WHITWORTH, J; LEIR, S; Rokadiya, S; Dar, O; HEYMANN, DL;
2018
Global health 4th edition
'Once there is life, there is hope' Ebola survivors' experiences, behaviours and attitudes in Sierra Leone, 2015.
KARAFILLAKIS, E; Jalloh, MF; Nuriddin, A; LARSON, HJ; WHITWORTH, J; LEES, S; Hageman, KM; Sengeh, P; Jalloh, MB; Bunnell, R; Carroll, DD; Morgan, O;
2016
BMJ global health
Strengthening capacity to apply health research evidence in policy making: experience from four countries.
Hawkes, S; K Aulakh, B; Jadeja, N; Jimenez, M; Buse, K; Anwar, I; Barge, S; Odubanjo, MO; Shukla, A; Ghaffar, A; WHITWORTH, J;
2015
Health policy and planning
Research capacity. Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa.
H3Africa Consortium,; Rotimi, C; Abayomi, A; Abimiku, A; Adabayeri, VM; Adebamowo, C; Adebamowo, C; Adebiyi, E; Ademola, AD; Adeyemo, A; Adu, D; Affolabi, D; Agongo, G; Ajayi, S; Akarolo-Anthony, S; Akinyemi, R; Akpalu, A; Alberts, M; Alonso Betancourt, O; Alzohairy, AM; Ameni, G; Amodu, O; Anabwani, G; Andersen, K; Arogundade, F; ... Zar, H.
2014
Science (New York, N.Y.)
Primary prophylaxis of cryptococcal disease with fluconazole in HIV-positive Ugandan adults: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial.
Parkes-Ratanshi, R; Wakeham, K; Levin, J; Namusoke, D; WHITWORTH, J; Coutinho, A; Mugisha, NK; GROSSKURTH, H; Kamali, A; Lalloo, DG; Cryptococcal Trial Team,;
2011
The Lancet infectious diseases
Strengthening capacity for health research in Africa.
WHITWORTH, JA G; Kokwaro, G; Kinyanjui, S; Snewin, VA; Tanner, M; Walport, M; Sewankambo, N;
2008
Lancet (London, England)
HIV and mortality of mothers and children: evidence from cohort studies in Uganda, Tanzania, and Malawi.
ZABA, B; WHITWORTH, J; MARSTON, M; Nakiyingi, J; Ruberantwari, A; Urassa, M; Issingo, R; Mwaluko, G; FLOYD, S; Nyondo, A; CRAMPIN, A;
2005
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass)
Why does HIV infection not lead to disseminated strongyloidiasis?
Viney, ME; BROWN, M; Omoding, NE; Bailey, JW; Gardner, MP; Roberts, E; Morgan, D; ELLIOTT, AM; WHITWORTH, JA G;
2004
The Journal of infectious diseases
Syndromic management of sexually-transmitted infections and behaviour change interventions on transmission of HIV-1 in rural Uganda: a community randomised trial.
Kamali, A; Quigley, M; Nakiyingi, J; Kinsman, J; Kengeya-Kayondo, J; Gopal, R; Ojwiya, A; HUGHES, P; Carpenter, LM; WHITWORTH, J;
2003
Lancet
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