Wolf-Peter Schmidt MD MSc

Research Fellow in Epidemiology

Room 380, Keppel St, London WC1E 7HT, UK

Tel: +44 20 7927 2461

Fax: +44 20 7636 7843

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Affiliated to: DCVBU.

Disciplines: Epidemiology, Medicine.

Research areas: Complex interventions, Diarrhoeal diseases, Environment, Hygiene, Water.

Background

Wolf graduated as mecial doctor in 2000. He worked in general medicine until 2001, and then started research in neuroepidemiology and cardiovascular epidemiology at the Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine at the University of Muenster/Germany. He obtained his Master in Control of Infectious Diseases at LSHTM in 2004. Since 2004 he has been working for IDEU and DCVBU at LSHTM.

Teaching

Wolf is involved in teaching the modules basic statistics and analysis and design of research studies

Research

Wolf is interested in epidemiological methods and study design, especially with regard to infectious diseases. Currently he is supporting research on water, sanitation and hygiene for the Environmental Health Group with particular emphasis on evaluating health promotion campaigns and behaviour change studies. He is also interested in HIV epidemiology, in particular mathematical modelling of risk behaviour in West Africa.

Selected publications

Scott, BE; Schmidt, WP; Aunger, R; Garbrah-Aidoo, N; & Animashaun, R; Marketing Hygiene Behaviours: The Impact of Different Communications Channels on Reported Handwashing Behaviour of Women in Ghana Health Education Research (2006), In Press;
Clasen, T.; Schmidt, W.P.; Rabie, T.; Roberts, I.; Cairncross, S.; Interventions to improve water quality for preventing diarrhoea: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ, 2007; 334(7597):782
Schmidt, W.P.; Van Der Loeff, M.S.; Aaby, P.; Whittle, H.; Bakker, R.; Buckner, M.; Dias, F.; White, R.G.; Behaviour change and competitive exclusion can explain the diverging HIV-1 and HIV-2 prevalence trends in Guinea-Bissau. Epidemiol Infect, 2008; 136(4):551-61
Schmidt, W.P.; Luby, S.P.; Genser, B.; Barreto, M.L.; Clasen, T.; Estimating the Longitudinal Prevalence of Diarrhea and Other Episodic Diseases: Continuous Versus Intermittent Surveillance. Epidemiology, 2006; 18(5):537-543
Clasen, T.; Roberts, I.; Rabie, T.; Schmidt, W.; Cairncross, S. Interventions to improve water quality for preventing diarrhoea Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2006; 3(3):CD004794

Full publications listing (since 2001)