Hilary Bower

MSc

Research Fellow

UK Public Health Rapid Support Team

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109

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

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0207 927 2524

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Hilary

I am an epidemiologist with extensive field experience in Africa and Asia. I am currently part of a10-person UK Public Health Rapid Support Team established by LSHTM and Public Health England to respond to, and carry out research in, epidemic diseases and outbreaks. My research interests are emerging and epidemic infectious diseases and improving outbreak responses and interventions.

During 2014-15, I was deployed as with Medecines Sans Frontieres and LSHTM in Sierra Leone as an epidedemiologist and a clinical trial manager (EBOVAC-Salone), and led LSHTM field research into transmission and asymptomatic infection in Ebola survivor households.

Before joining LSHTM, I spent 8 years in field positions with MSF in locations including South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Uzbekistan, India, Myanmar and Pakistan, and three years in MSF headquarters positions in Amsterdam and New York.

I have Masters in Epidemiology and in Public Health for Developing Countries from LSHTM and a BA in Political Science from Canterbury University, NZ.

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre for Evaluation

Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre

Teaching

I tutor on Basic Epidemiology and the Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases module in LSHTM and have contributed to Masters teaching on outbreak response in Sierra Leone

Research

Ebola transmission, asymptomatic infection, seroprevalence surveys

Aetiology of severe undifferentiated febrile illness

Humanitarian health care

Research Area

Complex interventions

Conflict

Public health

Surveillance

Systematic reviews

Disease control

Global Health

Mixed methods

Outbreaks

Implementation research

Qualitative methods

Discipline

Epidemiology

Operational research

Disease and Health Conditions

Infectious disease

Pandemic diseases

Emerging Infectious Disease

Tropical diseases

Zoonotic disease

Selected Publications

A systematic review and meta-analysis of seroprevalence surveys of ebolavirus infection.

Bower, H. ; Glynn, J.R. ;

Sci Data

Asymptomatic infection and unrecognised Ebola virus disease in Ebola-affected households in Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional study using a new non-invasive assay for antibodies to Ebola virus.

Glynn, J.R. ; Bower, H. ; Johnson, S. ; Houlihan, C.F. ; Montesano, C. ; Scott, J.T. ; Semple, M.G. ; Bangura, M.S. ; Kamara, A.J. ; Kamara, O. ; Mansaray, S.H. ; Sesay, D. ; Turay, C. ; Dicks, S. ; Wadoum, R.E. ; Colizzi, V. ; Checchi, F. ; Samuel, D. ; Tedder, R.S. ;

Lancet Infect Dis

Delivery of an Ebola Virus-Positive Stillborn Infant in a Rural Community Health Center, Sierra Leone, 2015.

Bower, H. ; Grass, J.E. ; Veltus, E. ; Brault, A. ; Campbell, S. ; Basile, A.J. ; Wang, D. ; Paddock, C.D. ; Erickson, B.R. ; Salzer, J.S. ; Belser, J. ; Chege, E. ; Seneca, D. ; Saffa, G. ; Stroeher, U. ; Decroo, T. ; Caleo, G.M. ;

Am J Trop Med Hyg

Effects of Mother's Illness and Breastfeeding on Risk of Ebola Virus Disease in a Cohort of Very Young Children.

Bower, H. ; Johnson, S. ; Bangura, M.S. ; Kamara, A.J. ; Kamara, O. ; Mansaray, S.H. ; Sesay, D. ; Turay, C. ; Checchi, F. ; Glynn, J.R. ;

PLoS Negl Trop Dis

Exposure-Specific and Age-Specific Attack Rates for Ebola Virus Disease in Ebola-Affected Households, Sierra Leone.

Bower, H. ; Johnson, S. ; Bangura, M.S. ; Kamara, A.J. ; Kamara, O. ; Mansaray, S.H. ; Sesay, D. ; Turay, C. ; Checchi, F. ; Glynn, J.R. ;

Emerg Infect Dis

Deaths, late deaths, and role of infecting dose in Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone: retrospective cohort study.

Bower, H. ; Smout, E. ; Bangura, M.S. ; Kamara, O. ; Turay, C. ; Johnson, S. ; Oza, S. ; Checchi, F. ; Glynn, J.R. ;

BMJ

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