Dr Aoife Doyle
BSc MPhil PhD
Assistant Professor
of Epidemiology
LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
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Aoife joined LSHTM in 2004 to lead the long-term impact evaluation of the MEMA kwa Vijana Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Intervention in Mwanza, Tanzania, and completed her PhD on this topic in 2010. Between 2010 and 2015 she held a MRC Population Health Scientist Post-doctoral Fellowship. Prior to joining LSHTM Aoife spent two years at the University of Aberdeen and two years as an EPIET fellow, based at Institut de Vielle Sanitaire, Paris where she contributed to infectious disease surveillance and participated in both national and international outbreak investigations.
Aoife lived and worked for two years in Mwanza, Tanzania (2007-8) and has experience working in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, and Zimbabwe.
Affiliations
Centres
Teaching
Aoife co-organises a short course on Adolescent Health in Low and Middle Income Countries and teaches on Control of RTIs/STIs (3192) and AIDS (3174) in-house modules. She is also a tutor for the Epidemiology of communicable diseases (EP301) distance learning module.
Research
Aoife's research focuses on the health and well-being of adolescents and young people and she has a particular interest in the design of interventions and in appropriate methods for their evaluation. Her work addresses the broad health needs of adolescent populations including improving access to health services, the intersection between education and health, engagement of adolescents in the research process, and exploring the potential of digital interventions.
Aoife's current research includes:
- External outcome evaluation of the Adolescents 360 intervention which aims to increase the use of modern contraceptives among 15-19 year old girls in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Nigeria
- Study of technology and mobile phone use among adolescents in Zimbabwe focusing on the implications for digital health interventions
- Crowdsourcing with adolescents in Senegal to address social norms limiting their access to sexual and reproductive health services
- Y-CHECK: a WHO-coordinated multi-country study of adolescent health check-ups in LMICs
- PRIDE randomised controlled trial of a low-intensity, lay counsellor-delivered, problem-solving intervention for common mental health problems in school-based adolescents in New Dehli, India
Selected Publications
