Katharine Ker

BSc MSc PhD

Assistant Professor

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Room 141

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

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+44 (0)20 7958 8135

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+44 (0)20 7958 8111

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Katharine

Katharine Ker is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health. She has a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia and a MSc Public Health from LSHTM. In December 2018, she was awarded a PhD in Evidence Synthesis from LSHTM.

Affiliations

Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Department of Population Health

Centres

Centre for Evaluation

Teaching

Katharine is a tutor and co-organiser of the 'Reporting and reviewing clinical trials' and a tutor of the 'Fundamentals in epidemiology' distance learning modules. She also contributes to the teaching of systematic review methodology as part of LSHTM's in-house teaching programme.

Research

Katharine is an epidemiologist with expertise in systematic reviews and clinical trials. She works in the CTU Global Health Trials Group on a programme of work focussed on the conduct of systematic reviews and large, international randomised trials assessing the effects of the antifibrinolytic drug, tranexamic acid, in patients with severe bleeding. Katharine is co-ordinator of the Antifibrinolytics Trialists Collaboration which was established to undertake individual patient data meta-analyses of the effects of antifibrinolytic drugs in bleeding patients.

Katharine previously worked for the Cochrane injuries Group and has authored many systematic reviews on a variety of topics including traumatic brain injury, road safety and alcohol-related injury.

Research Area

Clinical trials

Public health

Systematic reviews

Randomised controlled trials

Discipline

Epidemiology

Disease and Health Conditions

Injuries

Selected Publications

Tranexamic acid for the prevention of postpartum bleeding: Protocol for a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis.

Anti-fibrinolytics Trialists Collaborators – Obstetric Trialists; Ker K; Shakur-Still H; Sentilhes L; Pacheco LD; Saade G; Deneux-Tharaux C; Brenner A; Mansukhani R; Ageron F-X

2023

Gates open research

Tranexamic acid for gastrointestinal bleeding: can a reduction in the risk of death be discounted? A systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data from 64 724 bleeding patients.

Ker K; Mansukhani R; Shakur-Still H; Arribas M; Beaumont D; Roberts I

2023

BMJ Open

Tranexamic acid for the prevention of postpartum hemorrhage in women undergoing cesarean delivery.

Sentilhes L; Deneux-Tharaux C; Roberts I; Ker K

2021

American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

A cost-effectiveness and value of information analysis to inform future research of tranexamic acid for older adults experiencing mild traumatic brain injury.

Williams J; Ker K; Roberts I; Shakur-Still H; Miners A