Professor Judith Glynn

BM BCh MA MSc PhD FRCP

Professor

of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Room

Room 109

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Tel.

020 7927 2423

Fax.

020 7636 8739

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Judith

Judith Glynn left clinical medicine to come to the School in 1990 to do the MSc in Epidemiology. She went on to do a PhD (on the influence of infecting dose on severity of disease) and then joined the Karonga Prevention Study to work on tuberculosis and HIV in Malawi.

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre for Evaluation

Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive & Child Health (MARCH)

Tuberculosis (TB) Centre

Teaching

Judith runs courses on Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, and also teaches on Extended Epidemiology and Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases

Research

Her main research interests are understanding transmission of infections and determinants of disease severity. Studies include: Ebola transmission; the susceptibility of young women to HIV; the relationship between schooling and health; the impact of HIV on mortality and morbidity; HIV surveillance; the relationship between HIV and tuberculosis; molecular epidemiology of HIV and TB. Her current research studies are mainly in Malawi.

Research Area

Complex interventions

Sexual health

Social and structural determinants of health

Adolescent health

Disease control

Methodology

Mixed methods

Implementation research

Schools

Discipline

Molecular epidemiology

Epidemiology

Disease and Health Conditions

HIV/AIDS

Sexually transmitted disease

Tuberculosis

Emerging Infectious Disease

Sexually transmitted infection

Country

Malawi

Sierra Leone

South Africa

Region

Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Asymptomatic infection and unrecognised Ebola virus disease in Ebola-affected households in Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional study using a new non-invasive assay for antibodies to Ebola virus.

Glynn, J.R. ; Bower, H. ; Johnson, S. ; Houlihan, C.F. ; Montesano, C. ; Scott, J.T. ; Semple, M.G. ; Bangura, M.S. ; Kamara, A.J. ; Kamara, O. ; Mansaray, S.H. ; Sesay, D. ; Turay, C. ; Dicks, S. ; Wadoum, R.E. ; Colizzi, V. ; Checchi, F. ; Samuel, D. ; Tedder, R.S. ;

2017

Lancet Infect Dis

Effects of Mother's Illness and Breastfeeding on Risk of Ebola Virus Disease in a Cohort of Very Young Children.

Bower, H. ; Johnson, S. ; Bangura, M.S. ; Kamara, A.J. ; Kamara, O. ; Mansaray, S.H. ; Sesay, D. ; Turay, C. ; Checchi, F. ; Glynn, J.R. ;

2016

PLoS Negl Trop Dis

Deaths, late deaths, and role of infecting dose in Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone: retrospective cohort study.

Bower, H. ; Smout, E. ; Bangura, M.S. ; Kamara, O. ; Turay, C. ; Johnson, S. ; Oza, S. ; Checchi, F. ; Glynn, J.R. ;

2016

BMJ

Large-scale whole genome sequencing of M. tuberculosis provides insights into transmission in a high prevalence area.

Guerra-Assunção, J. ; Crampin, A. ; Houben, R. ; Mzembe, T. ; Mallard, K. ; Coll, F. ; Khan, P. ; Banda, L. ; Chiwaya, A. ; Pereira, R. ; McNerney, R. ; Fine, P. ; Parkhill, J. ; Clark, T. ; Glynn, J. ;

2015

Elife

Whole Genome Sequencing Shows a Low Proportion of Tuberculosis Disease Is Attributable to Known Close Contacts in Rural Malawi.

Glynn, J.R. ; Guerra-Assunção, J.A. ; Houben, R.M. ; Sichali, L. ; Mzembe, T. ; Mwaungulu, L.K. ; Mwaungulu, J.N. ; McNerney, R. ; Khan, P. ; Parkhill, J. ; Crampin, A.C. ; Clark, T.G. ;

2015

PLoS One

Isoniazid plus antiretroviral therapy to prevent tuberculosis: a randomised double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

Rangaka, M.X.; Wilkinson, R.J.; Boulle, A.; Glynn, J.R.; Fielding, K.; van Cutsem, G.; Wilkinson, K.A.; Goliath, R.; Mathee, S.; Goemaere, E.; Maartens, G.;

2014

Lancet

Earlier menarche is associated with a higher prevalence of Herpes simplex type-2 (HSV-2) in young women in rural Malawi.

Glynn, J.R. ; Kayuni, N. ; Gondwe, L. ; Price, A.J. ; Crampin, A.C. ;

2013