Alison Grant
MBBS MSc PhD DTM&H
Professor
of International Health and Dean, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
Fax.
I trained initially as a physician specialising in infectious and tropical diseases and HIV medicine, and continue to work as an HIV doctor in London. I studied epidemiology at LSHTM with particular interests in care for people with HIV in developing countries.
Affiliations
Centres
Teaching
My main areas of teaching are epidemiology, HIV medicine, TB and clinical tropical medicine, particularly to students on MSc Tropical Medicine and International Health, and the LSHTM Diplomas in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Teaching is currently on pause while I'm Dean of Faculty.
Research
My main research interest is improving care for people with HIV in low- and middle-income countries, and preventing TB. Major projects have included a cluster-randomised trial investigating a point-of-care TB test and treat algorithm for people with advanced HIV disease in South Africa; evaluation of South African national roll-out of Xpert MTB/RIF, a new TB diagnostic test replacing smear microscopy; investigation of how best to use Xpert MTB/RIF among people attending clinics for HIV care; linkage to care after a rifampicin-resistant Xpert MTB/RIF result in South Africa; and a trial comparing a single round of weekly isoniazid/rifapentine to periodic treatment. In collaboration with colleagues in South Africa, I have been involved with the design, implementation and evaluation of an HIV care programme in workplace and community settings.
I am a faculty member at the Africa Health Research Institute, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa where projects have included a programme taking a whole systems approach to TB infection prevention and control in primary healthcare clinics in South Africa (Umoya omuhle); investigating thoracic ultrasound as a diagnostic modality for pulmonary TB; a study investigating the infectiousness of people with subclinical vs clinical TB, and a study investigating potential predictive biomarkers of TB.
I have supervised research degree students working on use of Xpert MTB/RIF in South Africa and Botswana; determinants of TB infection among young people in South Africa; pathways to TB care in Ghana; the natural history of TB disease; and causes of death among people with HIV in South Africa.