Dr Barbara Willey BA MSc PhD

Research Fellow in Epidemiology and Medical Statistics

I completed a BA in Human Sciences at Oxford and an MSc in Epidemiology at LSHTM (2002). My doctorate investigated the association between household measures of socio-economic status and child malnutrition in children from Soweto, South Africa.

Prior to joining LSHTM, I worked as an epidemiologist in HIV at the Institute of Child Health (UCL), London.

I recently joined the Global Health Department, moving from the school's Disease Control Department which I joined in 2008, as an epidemiologist and medical statistician.

Affiliation

Teaching

I am a tutor for masters students on MSc Epidemiology and MSc Public Health in Developing Countries (PHDC).

I teach on the following modules: Analysis and Design of Research Studies, Basic Epidemiology, Extended Epidemiology, Statistics for EPH, Statistical Methods in Epidemiology, Advanced Statistical Methods in Epidemiology, Applying Public Health Principles in Developing Countries, and Epidemiology and Control of Malaria.

I am external examiner for Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa (Masters programmes).

Research

I recently joined the AMFm Independent Evaluation team in the Global Health Department to assess the effectiveness of Phase 1 of the Affordable Medcines Facility- malaria (AMFm). AMFm is a multi-country assessment of an initiative by The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria to improve the affordability of and access to quality-assured artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) to treat malaria.

Previously at LSHTM I have worked on a cluster randomised controlled trial of Intermittent Preventive Treatment for malaria in Infants (IPTi) in southern Tanzania, investigating effectiveness and safety of IPTi with SP. Within the setting of this trial, I also worked on a study to assess the effectiveness and safety of IPTi using HMIS (routinely collected health centre) data.

I have conducted a number of systematic reviews including:

In addition to my work in malaria, I also have an interest in neonatal health and survival and have worked on a pooled analysis of data from four East African countries, estimating the risk of neonatal mortality associated with low birth weight, small for gestational age and preterm birth.

I am a member of the the Malaria Centre, MRC Tropical Epidemiology Group (TEG), and the Centre for Maternal, Reproductive and Child Health (MARCH).

Research areas

  • Child health
  • Health inequalities
  • Health systems
  • Perinatal health
  • Statistical methods
  • Systematic reviews

Disciplines

  • Epidemiology

Disease and Health Conditions

  • Malaria

Other interests

  • MARCH
  • Malaria Centre
  • Tropical Epidemiology Group
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