Dr Hilary Davies-Kershaw
BSc, BSc(Med)Hons, MSc, PGCHE, PhD
Assistant Professor
, Programme Director for MSc Nutrition for Global Health
Hilary joined LSHTM as a Research Fellow in 2019. She is a registered dietitian and epidemiologist with experience of working in academia, NGOs and the NHS in the fields of maternal and child health, primary and secondary-care databases and longitudinal cohort studies.
She completed her PhD at UCL in Epidemiology and Health in 2016, using a mixed methods approach to focus on drug use and opioid substitute treatment in pregnancy and neonatal abstinence syndrome using evidence from electronic health records (The Health Improvement Network and Hospital Episode Statistics)
She is currently working with Elaine Ferguson and the Action Against Stunting Hub (London International Development Centre) setting up three mother-child cohort studies in India, Indonesia and Senegal.
Affiliations
Teaching
Programme Director for MSc Nutrition for Global Health
Teaching on the following modules;Extended Epidemiology, Fundamentals for Public Health Nutrition and Nutrition Programme Planning
Research
GCRF Action against Stunting Hub Study https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FS01313X%2F1 , based at https://lidc.ac.uk/ukri-gcrf-action-against-stunting-hub-inception-meeting-a-round-up/
Selected Publications
