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Dr Nicola Foster

Research Fellow

United Kingdom

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I joined LSHTM in 2020 following research posts at Lancaster University and the University of Cape Town. Prior to this I worked as a pharmacist in rural communities in South Africa before focusing on population-level interventions and research.

Affiliations
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre for Data and Statistical Science for Health
TB Centre
Antimicrobial Resistance Centre

Teaching

I hold a Higher Education Academy fellowship, am a module organiser for the distance learning module Fundamentals of Epidemiology (EPM101), and teach on the Social Epidemiology module of the MSc in Epidemiology.

Research

I work on cluster randomised controlled trials of tuberculosis diagnostics, digital adherence technologies for tuberculosis treatment, and tuberculosis case finding. My research interests include statistical within-trial cost-effectiveness analyses, evaluations of the distributional (equity) impact of interventions and spatiotemporal epidemiology.

Research Area
Health inequalities
Global health
Applied statistics (medical)
Mathematical modelling
GIS/Spatial analysis
Social and structural determinants of health
Disease and Health Conditions
Infectious diseases
Tuberculosis
Country
Ethiopia
South Africa
Vietnam
United Kingdom

Selected Publications
Evaluating the equity impact and cost-effectiveness of digital adherence technologies with differentiated care to support tuberculosis treatment adherence in Ethiopia: protocol and analysis plan for the health economics component of a cluster randomised trial
FOSTER, N; TADESSE, AW; MCQUAID, CF; GOSCE, L; Abdurhman, T; Assefa, D; Bedru, A; HOUBEN, RM G J; Van Kalmthout, K; Letta, T; Mohammed, Z; Van Rest, J; Umeta, DG; Weldemichael, GT; Yazew, H; Jerene, D; Quaife, M; FIELDING, KL;
2023
Trials
Social determinants of the changing tuberculosis prevalence in Việt Nam: Analysis of population-level cross-sectional studies.
FOSTER, N; Nguyen, HV; Nguyen, NV; Nguyen, HB; Tiemersma, EW; Cobelens, FG J; QUAIFE, M; HOUBEN, RM G J;
2022
PLOS Medicine
Strengthening health systems to improve the value of tuberculosis diagnostics in South Africa: A cost and cost-effectiveness analysis.
FOSTER, N; Cunnama, L; McCarthy, K; Ramma, L; Siapka, M; Sinanovic, E; Churchyard, G; FIELDING, K; GRANT, AD; Cleary, S;
2021
PLOS ONE
Catastrophic costs potentially averted by tuberculosis control in India and South Africa: a modelling study.
Verguet, S; Riumallo-Herl, C; Gomez, GB; Menzies, NA; HOUBEN, RM G J; SUMNER, T; LALLI, M; WHITE, RG; Salomon, JA; Cohen, T; FOSTER, N; Chatterjee, S; SWEENEY, S; Baena, IG; Lönnroth, K; Weil, DE; VASSALL, A;
2017
The Lancet Global health
Cost-effectiveness of Xpert MTB/RIF for tuberculosis diagnosis in South Africa: a real-world cost analysis and economic evaluation.
VASSALL, A; SIAPKA, M; FOSTER, N; Cunnama, L; Ramma, L; FIELDING, K; McCarthy, K; CHURCHYARD, G; GRANT, A; Sinanovic, E;
2017
The Lancet Global health
Cost-effectiveness and resource implications of aggressive action on tuberculosis in China, India, and South Africa: a combined analysis of nine models.
Menzies, NA; Gomez, GB; BOZZANI, F; Chatterjee, S; FOSTER, N; Baena, IG; LAURENCE, YV; Qiang, S; Siroka, A; SWEENEY, S; Verguet, S; Arinaminpathy, N; Azman, AS; Bendavid, E; Chang, ST; Cohen, T; Denholm, JT; Dowdy, DW; Eckhoff, PA; Goldhaber-Fiebert, JD; Handel, A; Huynh, GH; LALLI, M; Lin, H-H; Mandal, S; ... VASSALL, A.
2016
The Lancet Global health
Incorporating Demand and Supply Constraints into Economic Evaluations in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries.
VASSALL, A; MANGHAM-JEFFERIES, L; Gomez, GB; PITT, C; FOSTER, N;
2016
Health economics
The economic burden of TB diagnosis and treatment in South Africa.
FOSTER, N; VASSALL, A; Cleary, S; Cunnama, L; CHURCHYARD, G; Sinanovic, E;
2015
Social science & medicine (1982)
Effect of implementing digital adherence technologies on the use of health care providers’ time and the human resource cost of tuberculosis treatment adherence support in Ethiopia
Belachew, M; Sahile, M; Gadissa, D; Abdurhman, T; Bedru, A; McQuaid, CF; Van Rest, J; Van Kalmthout, K; Jerene, D; FIELDING, K; Tadesse, A; FOSTER, N;
2024
medRxiv
Health survey form for human resources and digital adherence technologies
FOSTER, N; Belachew, M; Sahile, M; Gadissa, D; Abdurhman, T; Bedru, A; Van Rest, J; Van Kalmthout, K; Jerene, D; FIELDING, K; TADESSE, AW;
2024
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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