Dr Edwin Armitage
Research Student - MPhil/PhD - Infectious & Tropical Diseases
United Kingdom
I am a Clinical PhD Fellow in Global Health funding by the Wellcome Trust at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Public Health Specialty Registrar.
My research is currenlty focussed on Streptococcus pyogenes (Strep A) epidemiology in The Gambia.
Specifically, my work and interets include:
1. Determining Strep A carriange and infection disease burden and establishing disease surveillance in low-resource settings,
2. Investigating household and community transmission and risk factors for Strep A disease,
3. Immune responses to natural Strep A infection in high-Rheumatic Heart Disease burden settings,
4. Improving Strep A diagnostics in LMIC,
5. Primordial and primary prevention of Rheumatic Heart Disease through targetting Strep A skin infections.
My research is currenlty focussed on Streptococcus pyogenes (Strep A) epidemiology in The Gambia.
Specifically, my work and interets include:
1. Determining Strep A carriange and infection disease burden and establishing disease surveillance in low-resource settings,
2. Investigating household and community transmission and risk factors for Strep A disease,
3. Immune responses to natural Strep A infection in high-Rheumatic Heart Disease burden settings,
4. Improving Strep A diagnostics in LMIC,
5. Primordial and primary prevention of Rheumatic Heart Disease through targetting Strep A skin infections.
Affiliations
Department of Clinical Research
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
Research
Research Area
Epidemiology
Molecular epidemiology
Disease burden
Surveillance
Public health
Bacteria
Immunology
Diagnostics
Vaccines
Disease and Health Conditions
Infectious diseases
Skin diseases
Scabies
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Country
Gambia
United Kingdom
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)
Selected Publications
Molecular Methods Enhance the Detection of Pyoderma-Related Streptococcus pyogenes and emm-Type Distribution in Children.
2024
The Journal of infectious diseases
Interview transcripts for: "Health-seeking behaviour and beliefs around sore throat in The Gambia: A qualitative study"
2024
PLOS Global Public Health
Health-seeking behaviour and beliefs around sore throat in The Gambia: A qualitative study.
2024
PLOS Glob Public Health
Health-seeking behaviour and beliefs around sore throat in The Gambia: a qualitative study
2023
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory