Mr Thomas Gachie
BSc MSc
Research Assistant
Medical Statistics and Epidemiology
LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
Thomas Gachie joined the school in 2019. He obtained an MSc in Medical Statistics from LSHTM (2018) and did his training fellowship at Zambart, Zambia as part of the MRC International Statistics and Epidemiology Group (ISEG) fellowship program.
Previoulsy, he worked at KEMRI-Wellcome Trust on Bayesian disease mapping (malaria and malnutrition) using complex survey data.
Affiliations
Department of Clinical Research
Centres
Centre for Statistical Methodology
TB Centre
Teaching
Distance Learning Advanced Statistical Methods in Epidemiology Module (EPM304)
Research
Thomas works as a Statistical epidemologist on the Tuberculosis Reduction through Expanded Antiretroviral Treatment and Screening for Active TB (TREATS) project, being conducted in Zambia and South Africa, led by Professor Helen Ayles.
Research Area
Statistical methods
Randomised controlled trials
Spatial analysis
Discipline
Epidemiology
GIS/Spatial analysis
Nutrition
Statistics
Disease and Health Conditions
HIV/AIDS
Malaria
Malnutrition
Tuberculosis
Country
Zambia
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
Selected Publications
Can CRP help to distinguish live vs dead bacilli detected by Xpert-Ultra?
2021
Insaka: mobile phone support groups for adolescent pregnant women living with HIV.
2021
BMC pregnancy and childbirth
