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Dr Éimhín Ansbro

Research Fellow

United Kingdom

I studied Medicine at Trinity College, Dublin and did my specialist training in General Practice (Family and Community Medicine) on the Trinity/HSE General Practice Training Scheme in Ireland. I have a MSc(dist) in Tropical Medicine and International Health and the DTM&H from LSHTM. Before joining LSHTM in 2016, I worked with Médecins sans Frontières in India, Jordan and the DRC, focusing on malnutrition and developing Non-Communicable Disease services. I work three days at LSHTM and two days clinically as a family medicine specialist/GP each week.

Affiliations

Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre for Global Chronic Conditions
Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre

Teaching

I am co-organiser for a new Management and Evaluation of Humanitarian Health Projects distance learning module, part of a new Health in Humanitarian Crises MPH. I teach on Conflict and Health and Epidemiology of Noncommunicable Diseases and Control in-house modules. I am a tutor and supervise Masters students' summer projects. Recent projects have involved literature reviews and qualitative research on noncommunicable diseases and sustainability in humanitarian settings. I have also taught on malnutrition for the East African DTM&H and now teach on NCDs in humanitarian settings for the London-based DTM&H, the MSF Global Health and Humanitarian Medicine Course and CERAH Geneva NCDs Short Course.

Research

My research involves mixed methods evaluations (including costing) and implementation research on NCDs in humanitarian and LMIC settings. Current projects involve exploration of innovative models of care (integrated care, peer support) for hypertension and diabetes in Lebanon with the Partnership for Change group, involving ICRC, DRC and Novo Nordisk, and leading the qualitative component of the HumAn1 study, comparing human with analogue insulins in Bangladesh and Tanzania. Previously, I worked with MSF on evaluating their NCD services in DRC and Jordan and their introduction of a cardiovascular secondary prevention polypill in clinics in north Lebanon. I am workstream co-lead for the International Alliance for Diabetes Action (IADA). I am passionate about working with humanitarian organisations to develop simplified and cost effective models of NCD care delivery in unstable or resource-constrained environments, and improving access to care and medicines. I am also interested in applying and developing evaluation methods for complex interventions in insecure and dynamic humanitarian settings.

Research Area
Implementation science
Systematic reviews
Qualitative research
Global health
Health in humanitarian crises
International health organisations
Primary health care
Health services
Disease and Health Conditions
Diabetes
Hypertension
Cardiovascular diseases
Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lebanon
Iraq
Bangladesh
Tanzania
Jordan
Region
Middle East & North Africa (developing only)
East Asia & Pacific (developing only)
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)

Selected Publications

MSF experiences of providing multidisciplinary primary level NCD care for Syrian refugees and the host population in Jordan: an implementation study guided by the RE-AIM framework.
ANSBRO, É; Homan, T; Qasem, J; Bil, K; Rasoul Tarawneh, M; ROBERTS, B; PEREL, P; Jobanputra, K;
2021
BMC health services research
Models of care for patients with hypertension and diabetes in humanitarian crises: a systematic review.
Jaung, MS; WILLIS, R; Sharma, P; Aebischer Perone, S; Frederiksen, S; Truppa, C; ROBERTS, B; PEREL, P; Blanchet, K; ANSBRO, É;
2021
Health Policy and Planning
Clinical outcomes in a primary-level non-communicable disease programme for Syrian refugees and the host population in Jordan: A cohort analysis using routine data.
ANSBRO, É; Homan, T; Prieto Merino, D; Jobanputra, K; Qasem, J; Muhammad, S; Fardous, T; PEREL, P;
2021
PLoS medicine
"To die is better for me", social suffering among Syrian refugees at a noncommunicable disease clinic in Jordan: a qualitative study.
Maconick, L; ANSBRO, É; Ellithy, S; Jobanputra, K; Tarawneh, M; ROBERTS, B;
2020
Conflict and health
Delivering a primary-level non-communicable disease programme for Syrian refugees and the host population in Jordan: a descriptive costing study.
ANSBRO, É; Garry, S; Karir, V; Reddy, A; Jobanputra, K; Fardous, T; SADIQUE, Z;
2020
HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING
“To die is better for me”, social suffering among Syrian refugees at a noncommunicable disease clinic in Jordan: a qualitative study
ANSBRO, É; Maconick, L; Ellithy, S; Jobanputra, K; Tarawneh, M; Roberts, B;
2019
Research Square
Management of diabetes and associated costs in a complex humanitarian setting in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a retrospective cohort study.
ANSBRO, ÉM; Biringanine, M; Caleo, G; PRIETO-MERINO, D; SADIQUE, Z; PEREL, P; Jobanputra, K; ROBERTS, B;
2019
BMJ open
At the heart of the conflict.
ANSBRO, É; PEREL, P;
2019
Heart (British Cardiac Society)
The burden of diabetes and use of diabetes care in humanitarian crises in low-income and middle-income countries.
Kehlenbrink, S; SMITH, J; ANSBRO, É; FUHR, DC; Cheung, A; RATNAYAKE, R; Boulle, P; Jobanputra, K; PEREL, P; ROBERTS, B;
2019
LANCET DIABETES & ENDOCRINOLOGY
Point-of-care tests for syphilis and yaws in a low-income setting - A qualitative study of healthcare worker and patient experiences.
MARKS, M; Esau, T; Asugeni, R; Harrington, R; Diau, J; Toloka, H; Asugeni, J; ANSBRO, E; Solomon, AW; Maclaren, D; Redman-Maclaren, M; MABEY, DC W;
2018
PLoS neglected tropical diseases
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