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Dr Lauren D'Mello-Guyett

BSc MSc PhD

Assistant Professor

Room
411

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Tel.
(0)207 927 2662

I currently work at LSHTM as a Research Fellow in the Environmental Health Group which is the focus of the School's work on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health, and currently includes approximately 30 researchers and support staff working on range of research areas.

For the last five years, I have been working on the evaluation of WASH interventions in humanitarian crises. I have a particular interest in programme design and how to use both quantitative and qualitative data from existing monitoring and evaluation frameworks to improve programme implementation. As a Research Fellow at LSHTM, my research is focussed on the epidemiology of WASH related diseases and the evaluation of WASH in cholera outbreaks in humanitarian crises, collaborating with a range of implementing organisations and multilateral agencies including Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Action Contre La Faim (ACF) and UNICEF. 

Prior to joining LSHTM as a researcher, I have worked as a programme manager in multiple non-governmental organisations (NGOs) coordinating WASH, nutrition or HIV/AIDS programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. I have a BSc in Biology (University of Nottingham), MSc in the Control of Infectious Diseases (LSHTM) and PhD in Epidemiology and Population Health (LSHTM).

Affiliations

Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
Department of Disease Control

Centres

Centre for Evaluation
Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre
Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health

Teaching

I am the Module Organiser for the Designing Disease Control Programmes Module, and I also teach on the modules:

  • WASH & Health 
  • Applying Public Health Principles in Developing Countries 
  • Applied Communicable Disease Control 

I am a tutor to students for the MSc Control of Infectious Disease and MSc Public Health for Development, and supervise MSc thesis summer projects. I also lecture externally at Imperial University.

Research

Research Area
Complex interventions
Conflict
Hygiene
Sanitation
Water
Disease control
Environmental Health
Evaluation
Impact evaluation
Outbreaks
Discipline
Operational research
Disease and Health Conditions
Diarrhoeal diseases
Infectious disease
Malnutrition
Hospital acquired infection
Region
Middle East & North Africa (all income levels)
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Effectiveness of hygiene kit distribution to reduce cholera transmission in Kasaï-Oriental, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2018: a prospective cohort study.
D'Mello-Guyett L; Cumming O; Bonneville S; D'hondt R; Mashako M; Nakoka B; Gorski A; Verheyen D; Van den Bergh R; Welo PO
2021
BMJ open
Risk factors for child food contamination in low-income neighbourhoods of Maputo, Mozambique: An exploratory, cross-sectional study.
Bick S; Perieres L; D'Mello-Guyett L; Baker KK; Brown J; Muneme B; Nala R; Dreibelbis R; Cumming O
2020
Maternal & Child Nutrition
Prevention and control of cholera with household and community water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions: A scoping review of current international guidelines.
D'Mello-Guyett L; Gallandat K; Van den Bergh R; Taylor D; Bulit G; Legros D; Maes P; Checchi F; Cumming O
2020
PloS one
Distribution of hygiene kits during a cholera outbreak in Kasaï-Oriental, Democratic Republic of Congo: a process evaluation.
D'Mello-Guyett L; Greenland K; Bonneville S; D'hondt R; Mashako M; Gorski A; Verheyen D; Van den Bergh R; Maes P; Checchi F
2020
Conflict and health
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